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...tourism and activity for the former State of Connecticut, included parks, beaches, even a country club. Thousands of people called it home. Now all ... ...ted it to a large machine. The machine had a large crystal, surrounded by glass in the middle. He could not see what was on the other side. He heard... ...e of route 3. Next to the man was a small table set up with several small glass objects that appeared to be shot glasses. 174 Mike Saxton “This guy... ...ime but had been stained in the blood of an unknown number of people, and glasses walked through. The door shut on its own 198 Mike Saxton with no ... ...’ll be vulnerable for a long time.” Vincent was staring at her through the glass again. Lexi looked at him. “What’s wrong, Vince?” “She was so sure o... ...y never know who he is…huh?” Josee was interrupted by Eric tapping on the glass on the back of the cab. Carl turned to look out the back window. Jos...

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...unger one reached over his shoulder and wrestled the bottle out of his hand. He smashed it against the barrier and fragments of glass flew all over.... ...posits the bag where bags are left with an attendant. He pushes through and stops at the books catalogue drawers. Through the glass he peeks into... ...wahili or Chichewa (Malawi’s lingua franca) for Boss. Words etc (The return to innocence) Cape Maclear: Famed for its sandy beaches, it’s an pop...

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...lovers and Katie's Maps is an offbeat love letter to a vast collection of maps. Extracts from a travel journal tell one woman's life story in All the Beaches are Made of Pebbles and find out what Australia and underpants have to do with Claudia wanting to leave her husband of forty years inThe Road is Long. Extracts from a travel journal tell a woman's life story in All th...

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... restaurant for our first night in St Malo. We ate moules-frites and Mum let me drink red wine that made my legs feel numb and fuzzy after the second glass. The shells of the mussels swam in a bright yellow juice and it took many days before my fingertips lost the smell of garlic. I remember feeling sad when we had to board our bus back to the port, like I’d only read the ...

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... The Lost Children Homes from Homes The Runaways Oh, Henry Katie's Maps Scorpion The Road is Long Max's Holiday See the Amalfi Coast All the Beaches are made of Pebbles Shy Feet - Part Two...

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... ‘Happy Birthday to Me’. Afterwards, she settled in the living room with a glass of champagne. Poor kids, she thought. They must think I’ve gone mad. ... ...LE pagne and savored anew the joy she had felt that morning. On her second glass, she thought of ripping up Roger’s clothes and throwing his sports st... ...book too.” “That’s interesting.” Amanda sniffed and looked at her over her glasses again. “I shall give you a pamphlet about how to correctly write a ... ... her lumi- nous white skin. Thick lashes lined her dark, wide set eyes. No glasses. No makeup. Book signings usually produced modest results, and coul... ...s heart skipped a beat. “Would you like to come upstairs and relax, have a glass of sherry perhaps?” I don’t have time for this. What am I doing? But ... ...the sea. Lacey got books and pamphlets and pored over pictures of tropical beaches with Jake, but they both knew it was a sham – that they wouldn’t be...

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...just a few inches away the wind was driving a chilly downpour against the glass made Theo feel all the more warm and secure, wrapped up in a pile of... ...d against his forehead to check for fever and, f nding none, she placed a glass of milk on the bedside table. ‘It looks like the thunderstorm they f... ...ty, Theo wetted the edge of the stamp 27 Scoop with a few drops from his glass of water and peeled it back from the enve- lope to reveal: ST 7733559... ...mething. ‘And here’s Joe with the snack-trolley,’ she said. ‘You’ve got a glass of cold milk and some biscuits …though it looks like someone else go... ...p of coffee on a window ledge. She knelt down on a thick carpet beside a glass coffee table and reached for the deck of Tarot cards that lay beside ... ...e swell and the sun burst out over an Indian coastline of palm-tree-lined beaches. Theo gazed into the turquoise waters and watched silently as they...

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... neighbor woman, Rita (who thought of herself as Lily), with blonde hair and glasses, and that a nuclear bomb had gone off somewhere nearby Ithaca--ma... ...r stratosphere. My son's a weatherman, you know." The elderly man in thick glasses pointed out Gabriele's Lily shaped son as his own. "He says that ... ...s attention to the flickering icon, on the wall, that was shaped like a wine glass; the queer associations of social butterflies known as transvestite... ... their arrows and threw buckets of vitriol at the fat girl and the girl with glasses, her wrath was also implacable. She would beat up the worst of th... ...to a beach along the East Coast and the myriad times when he took her to the beaches in Turkey. She always wandered to one side of the beach, culling ... ... visible items of the store that were on the shelves were locked away behind glass. All of the cashiers, grocery stockmen, and other personnel were de... ...e equally enlightening. She was surprised that for all her walks on various beaches, trying to make sophisticated judgments about life to match the t... ...as like a ghetto of San Diego. According to the guidebook the sooty playas (beaches) were somewhat agreeable because of their adjacent bullfight aren...

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...ith a great bronze statue of Poseidon by a temple... “The water was like glass, not a seaweed moving, not a current...” His hand swept sideways, sp... ...ing, soothing. I lay there in his arms, thinking of the plants below, the glassy window of the water, the fish, coral, ruined cities...the lovers of... ... reminding him of days when it was fun to climb the hills and explore the beaches, fun all day: he admitted there had been time without pain and won... ...m to give up and sail for home: stars pegged our rigging and flipped over glassy combers: fish leaped: we watched as great white crests rose: we sle... ... a series of silver cat’s-paws; and as though through a sheet of green glass the faces of Sappho, Atthis and Anaktoria: a laurel wreath whirls a... ...ry of the Egyptian exodus. Those faces as we sang. Now those memories are glassed inside a mir- ror, unblemished. And I may open that mirror and expe... ...ing them in France and Italy, alone with hegemony of rocks, promontories, beaches, hierar- chy of seas assailing nakedness...here in Stratford, here ...

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...ith a great bronze statue of Poseidon by a temple... “The water was like glass, not a seaweed moving, not a current...” His hand swept sideways, sp... ...ing, soothing. I lay there in his arms, thinking of the plants below, the glassy window of the water, the fish, coral, ruined cities...the lovers of... ... reminding him of days when it was fun to climb the hills and explore the beaches, fun all day: he admitted there had been time without pain and won... ...m to give up and sail for home: stars pegged our rigging and flipped over glassy combers: fish leaped: we watched as great white crests rose: we sle... ... a series of silver cat’s-paws; and as though through a sheet of green glass the faces of Sappho, Atthis and Anaktoria: a laurel wreath whirls a...

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...ned a deep-seated penchant of vacationers around the globe to head for the beaches. 4 See graphic... ... were held in Baltimore‘s Old Zion Lutheran Church. It contains a stained-glass window with a representation of Mergenthaler‘s Blower, the first mod... ...ied into the printers’ composing room on the main floor below.) A small glassed-in enclosure next to the newsroom houses noisy clattering teletypes... ...l media raised visions of Web users sitting all alone in the dark staring glassy-eyed at blinking computer screens. Yet we‘ve already witnessed surp...

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...ned a deep-seated penchant of vacationers around the globe to head for the beaches. Brain, our hard drive; neurons, its circuits The brain is our sy... ... were held in Baltimore‘s Old Zion Lutheran Church. It contains a stained-glass window with a representation of Mergenthaler‘s Blower, the first mod... ...ptied into the printers’ composing room on the main floor below.) A small glassed-in enclosure next to the newsroom houses noisy clattering teletypes... ...l media raised visions of Web users sitting all alone in the dark staring glassy-eyed at blinking computer screens. Yet we‘ve already witnessed surp...

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...n some way… or if it hits another medium like water, or a transparent pane of glass, or a transparent film of plastic. Space is a Pure Formless Med... ... and putting them into perspective. Just as a child may ask its father for a glass of water just before going to sleep as a way to stay up longer; b... ...h an entire span of technologies from the latest space-age materials, to lead glass windows. The end-result is a wide range of ancient and modern t... ...rsarial competition and pyramidal overpopulation. Take the color red. Each glassmaker has their own secret formula for it because it is extremely ... ...mixture of ingredients, and the right temperature and technique. There is the glassmaker Blenko’s famous reply when asked about his formula for maki... ...lf: then that organism is successful. If a grain of sand is designed to form beaches, flats, as an ingredient in soil, to become compressed into di... ... L.A.’s smog pollution: making it even worse. People going to the west coast beaches of America can no longer escape the smog of their own cities b... ...alked along the edges of Asia: they only walked on sand, they walked along the beaches. The waves washed away their footprints. The rising tide wash... ...o great wonder that they ended up in Australia. They merely kept to the ocean beaches… and avoided being detected by the Neanderthals. Whom they co...

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...hen I got my Corvette in college I had my pick of the sorority girls. And my buddy, with his penthouse overlooking the Santa Monica and Malibu beache... ...ociety. In Poland the conservative government disbanded its sexual equality committee. In business and politics, women nearly always meet the glass ...

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...l products, processed food and beverages, chemicals, basic metals, textiles, glass, petroleum Crude steel: 14.6 million metric tons capacity; 10.7 mil... ...s Major industries: iron and steel, machin- ery and equipment, cement, sheet glass, motor vehicles, armaments, chemicals, ceramics, wood, paper produc... ...conomy Agriculture: principal crops tomatoes and flowers (mostly grown under glass); sweet peppers, eggplant, plants, other vegetables and fruit; Guer... ...wery, tanneries, sugar refining), light consumer goods industries (textiles, glassware), ce- ment plant, auto assembly plant, paper mill, oil refinery... ...asino Major industries: chemicals, food process- ing, precision instruments, glass making, printing Electric power: 8,000 kW standby capac- ity (1986)... ...est.); average annual inflation rate 2.4% (1985) Natural resources: forests, beaches, miner- als (pumice), mineral springs Agriculture: bananas, cocon...

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... to die?‖ --―Well Con, remember when we read Through the Looking Glass in the eighth grade? The White Queen said to Alice ‗believing in imp... ...recreation? Golf courses can pay for themselves. But what about parks and beaches? How much health care should the government provide? What about ro... ...e he was working and paying his taxes, the unemployed were playing on the beaches of Tenerife and the government was sending their welfare checks to... ...l be one world so everyone can live in California or Florida, loll on the beaches of Thailand or Tahiti, or enjoy the mountains of British Columbia o... ...probability‘ we toast.‖ NOTES 1. Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass 2. Transparancy International Rates the Countries. Aftenposten Nov...

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...rs, who would now be able to “purchase culture by the sip rather than by the glass” in a pervasively monitored digital environment. In practice, somew... ...1f26e8b14&ei=5007&partner=USERLAND. 37. Yochai Benkler, “Through the Looking Glass: Alice and Constitutional Foundations of the Public Domain,” Law an... ...f pub- lic and private land, with legal rules specifying that certain areas, beaches say, can never be privately owned, and accompanying rules giving ...

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.............................................................. 22 The Looking-Glass......................................................................... ...en shoes she left at Brickwall House—down the road, you know. They’re in a glass case— awfully tiny things.’ ‘Oh, Burleigh, Burleigh!’ she laughed. ‘Y... ...ere isn’t,’ said Una. Then they went on with the potato-roast. The Looking-Glass QUEEN BESS was Harry’s daughter. Stand forward partners all! In ruff ... ...ds and sideways did she pass, Making up her mind to face the cruel looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass As comely or as ... ...deways you may pass, But I will stand behind you till you face the looking-glass. The cruel looking-glass that will never show a lass As lovely or unl... ...oken person. No—he’ d no idea of going to Wotan. He was fishing on his own beaches, and he showed us the beacons and turf-heaps that divided his land ...

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...was alone in the moist obscurity--yet not alone, for I was dimly conscious of the presence of the pilot, and of what I took to be the captain, in the glass house above my head....

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...ous of the presence of the pilot, and of what I took to be the captain, in the glass house above my head. I remember thinking how comfortable it was, ... ...thought nothin’ of droppin’ down in the cabin for a little chat and a friendly glass. ‘Mugridge,’ sez ’e to me, ‘Mugridge,’ sez ’e, ‘you’ve missed yer... ...ely to sling my ’ook an’ keep slingin’ it.” I had brought the customary liquor glasses, but Wolf Larsen frowned, shook his head, and signalled with hi... ...iskey — “a gentleman’s drink,” quoth Thomas Mugridge, — and they clinked their glasses to the glorious game of “Nap,” lighted cigars, and fell to shuf... ... I’m a gentleman’s son.” Wolf Larsen was unaffected by the drink, yet he drank glass for glass, and if anything his glasses were fuller. There was no ... ... with our boat and skirted the northeastern point of the island. There were no beaches on the southern shore, and by early afternoon we rounded the bl... ...ng from two to five miles; while my most conservative calculation placed on its beaches two hundred thou sand seals. The island was highest at its ext... ...nly a few feet above the sea. With the exception of our little cove, the other beaches sloped gently back for a distance of half a mile or so, into wh... ...outheast to the northwest, and which was then blowing directly in upon us. The beaches of the outer cove were thundering with the surf, and even in ou...

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...se their girdles on the grass. 10 Underwoods Ah! speedier than before the glass The backward toilet goes; and swift As swallows quiver, robe and shif... ... and seasons doth suffice. VI – A VISIT FROM THE SEA Far from the loud sea beaches Where he goes fishing and crying, Here in the inland garden Why is ... ...nely sup. La Solitude, Hyeres 14 Underwoods VIII – TO MINNIE (With a hand-glass) A picture-frame for you to fill, A paltry setting for your face, A t... ..., alas! (Dumb thing, I envy its delight) ‘Twill wish you well, the looking-glass, And look you in the face to-night. 1869. IX – TO K. DE M. A lover, o... ...pon the mirror of a pool Forever quiet, clear and cool; And in the wayward glass, appears To hover between smiles and tears, Elfin and human, airy and... ...ron, rears a tower That from its wet foundation to its crown Of glittering glass, stands, in the sweep of winds, Immovable, immortal, eminent. XXXVI M... ...gang 51 E Even in the bluest noonday of July, 16 F Far from the loud sea beaches 12 Far ‘yont amang the years to be 38 For love of lovely words, a...

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...e, with a hard mouth, a sharp nose, iron-gray hair, gray eyes, gold-framed glasses, and a small, circular baldness at the crown of his head. His name ... ... down the Avenue, all hair and legs.” Mr. Stanley regarded him through his glasses with some- thing approaching animosity. “Now she’s all hat and idea... ...at evening Ann Veronica began: “Father!” Her father looked at her over his glasses and spoke with grave deliberation; “If there is anything you want t... ...h a deliberate note of irony, looking at her a little quizzically over his glasses. Ann Veronica looked bright and a little elated, and she disregarde... ...one side, pulled down the corners of his mouth, and looked at her over his glasses. “But why is it preposterous?” asked Ann Veronica, and fiddled with... ...the sunset reaches No keel as yet its waves has ploughed Or gritted on its beaches. “And we will sail that splendor wide, From day to day together, Fr...

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... into the maple-wood bulkheads of the cuddy. After breakfast he dusted the glass over these portraits himself with a cloth, and brushed the oil painti... ...aming sky kindled a tiny crimson spark upon the glistening surface of each glassy shell. With his chin sunk a little, his hands behind his back, and t... ..., presented a closed Gothic portal to the light and glory of the west. The glass of the rosace above the ogive glowed like fiery coal in the deep carv... ...of never having seen that coast be- fore. He seemed unable to put down his glasses, as though they had been glued under his contracted eyebrows. This ... ...led and shone like a mote of dust. From time to time, still holding up his glasses, he raised his other hand to wipe his streaming face. The 52 End o... ...r lean arms towards the offing; and the brown figures stooping on the tiny beaches, the brown figures of men, women, and children grubbing in the sand...