Today's largest cargo vessels are longer than three football fields, with cranes required to lift containers and stack them in towering columns. When the industry took off some 50 years ago, ships could hold only about a tenth of the freight that today's behemoths carry. According to the i...
There were new places to discover; new people to meet; often a clash of cultures as we struggled to understand our new neighbors, both literally (it was a struggle for me to learn conversational Hebrew…. my husband pretty much gave up the battle….and my son grew so proficient that Isra...
without bait, three feet above the water. Lookers-on were curious about it, and Jiang Tai Gong explained, “I would like to take honestly rather than to ask for with the knees down. I fish not for the fish but for the nobility (高贵).” Later words traveled ...
LONG BEACH, Pacific County — Russ Lewis has picked up some strange things along the coast of Long Beach Peninsula in Washington state over the years: Hot Wheels bicycle helmets with feather tufts, life-size plastic turkey decoys made for hunters, colorful squirt guns. And...
● In 1972 for the first time, over one billion TV viewers watched the Munich Olympic opening ceremony.B baseball watch games on television or listen on the radio/ American footballplay the sport/ soccerTape script:What is the most popular sport in the United States? That may be an ...
Lots of other stuff got banned, taking the fun out of childhood. BB gun wars, tackle football in the park, trick-or-treating without mommy going with us, bike riding without helmets, box hockey, and firing our shotguns at ducks at nearby lakes; we never killed anyone–and precious few ...
完形填空 I was shopping in the supermarket when I heard the young voice. “Mom, come here! There's this lady here like my 1 ! The mother rushed to her son; then she turned to me to 2 .I smiled and told her:“It's okay. Then I talked to the boy
Coming from Oklahoma, the Land of Football, you would think I would be a Sooner-born-and-Sooner-bred football fan, and it is true that when I was a child I thought “Boomer Sooner” was a Thanksgiving song, like “We Gather Together.” But football will never hold my heart like base...
a trunk, mixed up with rusty helmets and modern Turkish arms, reveals a lack of reverence that is of its time, representative of a class of people who saw no reason why they couldn’t take whatever they wanted. To him, the swords were probably Oriental curiosities of little monetary value...
The cadavers were then imaged using a standardized CT protocol first without and then with protective football equipment. The images were presented to three board-certified radiologists [SSL3] to identify all fractures from the occiput to T1 and assess their diagnostic quality. A sensitivity ...