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...female teeny-bashers are harder to catch than their male counterparts. They are seldom seen swaggering, boasting or clustering in gangs, and they affect no distinctive style of dress or appearance. Male criminals generally are products of the poorer sections of London, but some of the bovver birds come from such tony neighborhoods as Kensington, Knightsbridge and Chelsea...
Trouble is, this data is seldom available. "The New York Times illustrated the moon landing of Apollo 14 with maps and diagrams clearer than any ever used to describe the location of a new highway on earth," says Wurman. "We talk in numbers we can't comprehend and about sizes we can't visualize." All of which has led the plump, bearded architect to try to fill the need himself. He and Fellow Architect John Gallery have just written a guidebook to his own home town...
Though she professes that public speaking makes her nervous, it seldom shows: her remarks are made in neatly polished prose, delivered in a soft, low voice unhurried and convincing in its earnestness. She talks often of George: "A gentle man with a spine of steel...
Airline crews can seldom prevent skyjackings, but they can usually alert ground stations to what is happening. Every commercial aircraft is equipped with a transponder, a small radio transmitter that sends out automatic signals on any chosen frequency. The secret signal for skyjackings in recent years was 3100 on the transponder. Any airliner "squawking" on that frequency had been skyjacked and could be expected to request a new destination...
...hacked at each other with battle-axes, broadswords and spears. The bodies of fallen warriors littered the ground as beautiful damsels cheered their champions on to victory or wept when they met defeat. At last, the forces of the Middle Kingdom, led by their sovereign, King Andrew of Seldom Rest, burst into the stronghold of King Cariadoc of the Kingdom of the East. Cariadoc fell to the ground, mortally wounded by King Andrew's spear, and the triumphant army gathered round King Andrew to celebrate their victory and plot an invasion of the Kingdom of the West...