This Isn't the Petition Response You're Looking For. Official White House Response to Secure resources and funding, and begin construction of a Death Star by 2016.
This response was published on January 11, 2013. By Paul Shawcross The Administration shares your desire for job creation and a strong national defense, but a Death Star isn't on the horizon. Here are a few reasons: The construction of the Death Star has been estimated to cost more than $850,000,000,000,000,000. However, look carefully (here's how) and you'll notice something already floating in the sky -- that's no Moon, it's a Space Station! Keep in mind, space is no longer just government-only. Even though the United States doesn't have anything that can do the Kessel Run in less than 12 parsecs, we've got two spacecraft leaving the Solar System and we're building a probe that will fly to the exterior layers of the Sun.
We are living in the future! Go Where? Sex, Gender, and Toilets. Women’s and men’s washrooms: we encounter them nearly every time we venture into public space.
To many people the separation of the two, and the signs used to distinguish them, may seem innocuous and necessary. Trans people know that this is not the case, and that public battles have been waged over who is allowed to use which washroom. Creating the All-Terrain Human. Come winter, when most elite ultrarunners keep running, Jornet puts away his trail-running shoes for six months and takes up ski-mountaineering racing, which basically amounts to running up and around large mountains on alpine skis.
In this sport too, Jornet reigns supreme: he has been the overall World Cup champion three of the last four winters. So what’s next when you’re 25 and every one of the races on the wish list you drew up as a youngster has been won and crossed out? You dream up a new challenge. Last year Jornet began what he calls the Summits of My Life project , a four-year effort to set speed records climbing and descending some of the world’s most well known peaks, from the Matterhorn this summer to Mount Everest in 2015.
In doing so, he joins a cadre of alpinists like Ueli Steck from Switzerland and Chad Kellogg from the United States who are racing up peaks and redefining what’s possible. But bigger challenges bring bigger risks. The Three Oddest Words. Murphy Laws Site - The origin and laws of Murphy in one place. Short stories at east of the web. A game of Scrabble has serious consequences. - Length: 4 pages - Age Rating: PG - Genre: Crime, Humor A semi-barbaric king devises a semi-barabaric (but entirely fair) method of criminal trial involving two doors, a beautiful lady and a very hungry tiger. - Length: 7 pages - Genre: Fiction, Humor Sandra performed her little charade in front of the mirror and morphed into the Gisela character on a whim.
. - Length: 20 pages - Genre: I won’t tell anyone about the diagnosis. . - Length: 8 pages - Genre: Fiction Jack Scrimshaw. . - Length: 17 pages - Age Rating: 15. Five Words. One Sentence - True stories, told in one sentence. Short Short Fiction Contest Winners 2011 - Aspens 78 Word Fiction Contest Winners. Jonnie Miles via Getty Images This fall, in partnership with Colum McCann and the Aspen Writers' Foundation, we held a short fiction contest.
Very short: Entries had to be exactly 78 words long. The winner, chosen from 4,300 entries, is Nate Ochs, a 33-year-old smoke jumper from South Dakota. His story and the nine other finalists are reprinted below. "How the Blood Moves in Winter" By Nate Ochs If you buy Marv a scotch he'll tell you he hasn't slept with her in a dozen years. MORE ABOUT THE WRITER: Nate Ochs hasn't written a word for 10 years — since it left him frustrated as a 20-something bartender in New Orleans. "Letters in War Time" 102 Spectacular Nonfiction Stories from 2012. Each year, I track the most exceptional stories I encounter while assembling my twice-weekly newsletter, The Best of Journalism, as well as acting as an editor-at-large for Byliner.
These projects afford me the opportunity to read as much impressive nonfiction journalism as any single person possibly can. The result is my annual Best of Journalism List, now in its fifth year. If you’re feeling nostalgic, here’s the 2011 edition. There are, of course, worthy pieces of writing and reporting that escaped my attention in 2012, but I can assure you that all of the 102 stories listed below deserve wider attention—as do the authors of these stories. The featured bylines are linked to the authors’ Byliner writer pages, which makes it easy to discover and read more of their excellent work. In the spirit of full disclosure, I’ll also note that I’m a staff writer at The Atlantic (where my colleagues neither saw nor influenced this list) and have done my best to remain objective.
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