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...opportunity to the 100,000 or so toshers (copper salvagers), mudlarks and bone-pickers who crammed the city's margins, scavenging its corpses or sifting through its effluvia on the banks of the Thames. The air in parts of the capital was so appalling that when, in 1854, cholera struck on Broad Street in the Soho district and quickly developed into the worst epidemic in the city's history, it was hard to doubt the official line - let alone the evidence of the senses - that the stink was to blame...
...political deal is struck and these people drop their guns and go home...
...aggressive counterattack. DHS Secretary Michael Chertoff, who weighed in with an op-ed article in the Washington Post this week, told TIME in an interview that the ATS program is an "essential" way to look for the connections that terrorists have used in the past before they struck. "The ATS system", Chertoff says, "allows us to see connections like terrorists have known to have in the past and analyze them before something happens." Chertoff asserts that if this kind of data mining had been in place before Sept. 11, federal authorities might have well known about the connections among...
Matisse explains that when a typical metal bar is struck and vibrates, several points on the bar—called “nodes” by physicists—do not vibrate, but produce two tunes that resonate from each bar. Matisse sawed nicks at these nodes on the bar so that the whole bar would be more flexible, setting the two tones a full octave apart and eliminating the discord...
...those of you struck by a strong case of Nativity naïveté, I regret to inform you of the existence of this newsletter, and I offer you my apologies. But, for your own good, you must know that because of it, many, and probably most, Christmas cards are rife with patent falsehoods, half-truths, and distortions...