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...escape chute that makes for cooler slides to the ground after a forced landing, the fussed-over plane is thoroughly checked after every 50 hours in the air. The four turbo-compound engines of ordinary Super Constellations are overhauled at the 1,200-hour mark; Columbine's get torn apart after 600 hours...
...after his 42nd birthday, Bao Dai found himself overwhelmingly repudiated by the people he had sometimes meant to serve, but only fitfully did, while his torn country lived through the intersecting agonies of poverty, war, colonialism and Communism. When he got the news of his repudiation in Paris last week, Bao Dai sent word through his Chef de Cabinet: "His Majesty adopts silence...
Part of the land on which the building will be constructed is now occupied by a private home, part of which will have to be torn down...
Billions of years ago, "electric currents of enormous intensity may have flowed around the equator of the primitive sun," he hypothesized. "The forces of such currents would cause the equator to bulge." Then, according to the theory, a doughnut ring might be torn loose from the sun by the currents. The ring of matter would break up into small pieces, the larger of which would become the seeds of the planets we know today. That is, other matter would condense on the surfaces of these pieces...
...until the flesh falls off the bones, and throw the flesh away and treasure the bones?" Primitive peoples discovered that, by devouring a dead body, they did not acquire its spirit; with that insight, as myths tell it, the original oneness of spirit and body, heaven and hell, was torn asunder. The ancient Egyptians spent half their lives preparing for the afterlife (some lucky corpses were sent to eternity in a glass shaft carved to represent the phallus of Osiris); at times it seemed as if only the grave robbers, who returned a large percentage of buried wealth to circulation...