Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Nostalgically, Bill Feingold intones the excruciating litany. "Having your tongue torn out, and your throat cut across," he rumbles, recalling words memorized on a New York City rooftop 38 years ago. "And buried in the sands of the sea, where the tide ebbs and flows twice in every 24 hours--if you should reveal the secrets belonging to the degree of first-degree Mason. The second degree is to have your breast torn open and left prey to the vultures of the air. The third degree..." If he wonders whether anyone really cares what happens when you reveal the secrets...
...have to worry about down-time: the Disney theme parks are only a little more than 50 miles away (but save enough energy for the nonstop pace at Space Camp). Other local points of interest include the Brevard Community College Astronaut Memorial Planetarium and Observatory (planetarium shows, a rooftop telescope, space museum and hands-on exhibit hall), the Piper Aircraft factory (where those interested in aviation on a smaller scale can tour the assembly plant) and the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge (for living proof that nature and technology can coexist peacefully). Finally, you'll want to reserve time...
...only real playmate--his immediate elder brother Lobsang Samten--serene in the knowledge that no one would readily punish a boy regarded as the incarnation of the god of compassion. Yet the dominant characteristic of his childhood was its loneliness. Often, he recalls, he would go onto the rooftop of his palace and watch the other boys of Lhasa playing in the streets. And each time his brother left, he remembers "standing at the window, watching, my heart full of sorrow as he disappeared into the distance...
NOVEMBER 25: The National Turkey and the runner-up are flown to the capital and whisked to the Hotel Washington, left, where all Top Turkeys have stayed for the past 30 years. They spend the night next to the rooftop summer kitchen. Great view of the White House...
...rooftop of an Iraqi government building in Baghdad, a gun crew went through its paces again and again. The troops were working hard to improve the time it took to prepare their antiaircraft battery for action. On the street below, a taxi driver looked up inquisitively at the scurrying soldiers. "Is there going to be another attack?" he asked his American passenger. Everyone in Iraq's capital was wondering about the answer...