Something held me back: Bubblegum, my first pet and a shell-carrying member of the Helicidae family.
They simply stop being whoever they were and become a shell that looks and, part of the time, acts like them.
Instead of working on his thesis, Keith spent most of two years holed up in the family garage, stripping the body off a Triumph Spitfire and building a new shell from scratch, using foam and 700 pounds of plaster of paris.
The development left visitors startled and a bit shell shocked.
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Such is the case with John Arrillaga's plans to build an office complex and a theater shell on the southwest side of the Caltrain station in Palo Alto.
She points out how Ms. Abercrombie added Surrealist elements: a wise or perhaps not wise owl, a phallic lighthouse and a conch shell, which refer to sexuality, according to Ms. Fort.
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The firing tube is supported in a tripod-like design and fires roughly a 3-pound shell, some 14 inches in length and a bit larger than 2 inches in diameter.
And a white silk shell, navy textured tweed lame jacket, and marine wool silk jacquard pant combo looked perfect for the editor at work.
Debuting today, the three pound convertible tablet boasts a spill and drop-resistant shell, a carry handle, a presumed 10-inch touchscreen display and a 6-cell Li-ion battery.
One ejection seat shell ripped through an oak tree and crashed into a condo fence, and the other seat shell landed next door, suggesting that the two Navy pilots ejected at a low altitude, another resident, Keith Gutkowski, told CNN.
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Matthew Ganser is a former drilling engineer for Royal Dutch Shell and a National Science Foundation Fellow at Stanford University.
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Earth Biofuels was formed out of a clutter of shell companies and a Meridian, Miss.
If you do work up the arm strength and fashion courage to lug this thing outside, however, you'll find that quick connectivity is greatly enhanced by Splashtop, which allows you to quickly boot to a Linux-based shell and run a browser.
It made a billion debt bet to acquire gasoline distributor Esso from Exxon Mobil a few years back and last year signed a joint venture with Shell to produce and distribute both ethanol and gasoline in Brazil and, indeed, around the world.
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It sports an Intel Atom processor, a 12.1-inch display and a conventional plastic shell.
The fact that he has been effective and not a mere shell of himself has been a bonus.
Equipped with a flat underside and cupped upper shell that resembles a skewed dome, they are etched with faint concentric lines that recall growth spurts.
Transplanted easterners with a classic Virginica pear shape and a relatively shallow shell, they are praised for their richness and mouthfeel, and were sweet, fleshy, and vibrant, even when shucked right on the beach in the midday heat.
Each of them have the telltale look of every Panasonic Toughbook and Toughpad -- a solidly constructed silver plastic shell with black rubber corners and a girth roughly twice that of its less robust gadget brethren.
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"How the sound reflects off this reflecting surface with this composite object on it - which is pretty big and has a cloaking shell on it - really reflects... just like a flat surface does, " Dr Cummer said.
He has suggested a steel frame and a stone outer shell, leaving enough space for stairways, lifts and service ducts leading to the space in the pediment above, and a basement - possibly a nightclub - linking the arch with the existing stone lodges on either side.
Details of exactly how these high-tech tailor's dummies work are closely guarded, pending patent protection, but the basic idea is that a network of actuators inside the dummy will push and pull a flexible outer shell into different shapes.
And the way the skinny neck disappeared between the animal's breastplate and shell-a squirming, live thing slipping hidden into dead stony stuff-it seemed suddenly like the Mystery of Mysteries, the very source of Life .
But the problem is that as soon as fun becomes part of a corporate strategy it ceases to be fun and becomes its opposite at best an empty shell and at worst a tiresome imposition.
Getting Mars back online early was a triumph for Shell--and a rare piece of good news for the world's third-largest oil and gas company.
At 29, Robinho, a man who boasts 90 caps for Brazil and once a key figure for the likes of Real Madrid and Manchester City, now looks a shell of his former self, as evidenced by the fact that he is now usually a fixture on the substitute's bench and has made just two starts since November.
But the Tanzanians were a transformed side in the second half, coming out of a defensive shell and drawing level in the 57th minute, when a free kick was pushed into the path of Yusuf Macho, who rifled the ball into the net.
Case in point: Oil majors like Exxon Mobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, BP 's BPAmerica and Shell Oil USA, a unit of Royal Dutch Shell.
When Greenpeace activists heard about it, they occupied the platform and instigated a costly public and consumer outcry against Shell.
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The process involves removing the snails from their shell, cleaning and boiling them, then stuffing the shell with a mixture of butter, herbs, garlic and the meat before baking them.
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