An initial investigation revealed thatthe terrorist was a Palestinian residentof the West Bank city of Tulkarm who had previously served a prison sentence in Israel. The Shin Bet added that the suspect was a former Shin Bet aide who had helped thwart terrorism in the West Bank. The suspect's...
Apparently, an apple fell on his head, and he started wondering why the apple was attracted to the ground in the first place. Newton publicized his Theory of Universal Gravitation in the 1680s. It basically set forth the idea that gravity is a predictable force that acts on all matter in...
Noise is an undesirable or disruptive sound. Sound refers to vibrations that travel through the air or another medium and can be heard when they reach a person's ear.
It may sound like I’m taking all this a little too personally, but I’m a songwriter who is engaged, at this very moment, in the process of songwriting. It’s a blood and guts business, here at my desk, that requires something of me to initiate the new and fresh idea. It require...
Complicating things is the SSA (Social Security Admin.) and HHSD (Health and Human Services of Texas) don’t talk, don’t seem to have any coordination. This is not so good for families. Mom (with the OK from the LIDDA) chose to wait until his 18th birthday to re-try to help him...
often enough to eventually be told the “s” is silent. I treasured the distance between talk and action. The threats were the reward. We packed up all our shame, from one nowhere to another, each time stumbling to root. Inside this dream, paid for by fearful men, a survivors’s trace...
“I should have bought the Givenchy pattern.” She whimpered. *** 1957 by Chanel from the Les Exclusifs line smells to me exactly like the 1950’s. You can bet your bottom dollar that I know what that smell is all about. It is soapy, clean and upstanding in it’s sparkling Madison...
Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least.—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749-1832)The first thing I’ve learned from failure is that the four things which matter most are:The quality of the people doing the development The expected value of the ...
direct the sound waves to the eardrum. The head and torso also influence the sound waves. The eardrum transfers the wave to the cochlea, which translates the waves into nerve signals the brain can process. The cochlea is a spiral or logarithmic shape and is only sensitive to certain ...
From the biblical story of Adam and Eve to the apple that fell on Isaac Newton’s head, apples are always around, hauling quite a bit of symbolism. Why Apple chose an apple as its pictorial mark and why there is a bite in it has inspired lots of legends, from being the cyanide-...