Word: strings
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...sensitive? Well, the string of accidents that turned Mir into a global joke began just over a year ago, and Solovyov is bound to be wary of a repeat performance. Especially when the news is pretty embarrassing: Not even Nikolai Budarin, the strongest cosmonaut of the current crop, could open that darn hatch -- and he broke three wrenches trying. ?I am somewhat distressed that we have failed to open the hatch,? Solovyov conceded. That?s an understatement. The space walk now has to wait until a new stock of wrenches is sent up in the next cargo ship -- and Mission...
...addition to the standard guitar and drum ensemble, Caedmon's Call includes a string bass, a Hammond B-3 organ and a percussion set of bongos, congas and a djembe...
Such a current, Philander thinks, could explain the unusual spate of El Ninos that marked the first part of this decade. Think of the cycle as one of the strings on the climate's violin, he suggests. "When something changes the tension on the string, the frequency of the vibration also changes...
...Despite a string of false leads, federal agents are confident of apprehending Rudolph: "They think he's hiding in the woods in North Carolina, by himself. They've got 100 people out there, and they're going to get him," says Fulton. The title of the missing video has not been disclosed...
...recent string of articles tracks the "over-heated" incomes of today's authors. Several months ago, The New York Observer ran a piece on the exorbitant book contracts being floated in New York City. A million dollars is nothing, the Observer trumpeted. If you weren't getting a million dollars for your book, you were probably being hoodwinked. James Atlas, writing in The New Yorker a couple of weeks ago, describes how the literary scene has become infatuated with cash lately. The only things writers can talk about at cocktail parties are stock options and mutual funds. His writer friends...