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...feel confident we can sell a lot of tickets for this show and have our profits go to setting up a fund for future events and concerts so we wouldn't have to shell out this lump sum again," said council member Thomas D. Warren...
Within a couple of weeks, says Harvard's Robert Kirshner, the temperature of 1987A's expanding shell should drop from its current 10,000 degrees C to roughly 6,000 degrees C, about the same temperature as our sun's surface. During the explosion, though, internal temperatures climbed to billions of degrees, and elements like silicon, sulfur and platinum, synthesized by the star, began spewing out over a vast region of space, where they will form clouds of gas and dust that can coalesce into new stars and planets. Indeed, most of the elements abundant on earth today, except hydrogen...
...HELL. YOU'VE HEARD IT said many times by shell-shocked servicemen, cynical sargeants and sunglassed supreme commanders. To judge from history, armed conflict has been humanity's favorite pastime, using everything imaginable: primitive wooden spears, bronze swords and shields, grenade launchers, cutting remarks, Agent Orange, frying pans and other domestic appliances, and tiny atoms which go boom in a big way. Yet one has to wonder why, if war is to be conceived as an unpleasant phenomenon, we humans spend so much time and effort thinking up excuses to get embroiled...
...conferences there, and a string of hopeful peace envoys were among its guests. The Commodore's lively bar was renowned throughout the Middle East as a meeting place for those passing through Beirut. It was also the home of a parrot whose uncannily accurate imitation of an incoming artillery shell fooled more than a few newly arrived reporters. While cross fire occasionally damaged the aging seven-story edifice, it managed to remain open for business...
Even a boisterous crowd of Pudding lovers willing to shell out $50 a seat was unable to generate much enthusiasm for this three-hour ordeal. The audience began getting restless from the start and on one occasion during the second act a particularly loathsome joke yielded a lone cackle from the back...