• Another friend of mine used to maintain that airplanes stayed up in the air only because people believed -- against reason -- that they could fly: Without that collective delusion sustaining them, they would instantly plummet to earth.

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  • Her buildings look as if they could fly you to the moon, but two recent buildings demonstrate that there is more to her work than a showy exterior: the Riverside Museum, which houses an important collection of historic vehicles, in Glasgow, and the Evelyn Grace Academy in Brixton.

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  • European critics have said the current deal offers greater advantage to U.S. carriers by allowing them to operate within the EU. An American airline can, for example, fly from New York to London, where they could pick up passengers and then fly to Germany.

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  • The astronauts, Michael Massimino and Michael Good, taped the pieces so they would not fly off into space where they could become potentially lethal projectiles whizzing about in orbit.

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  • "I've got three parks the bees could fly to, they've got very nice gardens and it's a very nice area to keep bees in, " says Ed O'Brien.

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  • But ATK and Astrium believe their experience means they could have the 90m-high (300ft) Liberty rocket ready to fly by 2013, and operational with astronauts on board by 2015.

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  • "We did have a Coast Guard helicopter crew fly for 60 miles up the shoreline there to see if they could spot any environmental impact and they weren't able to find anything, " he said, adding a Coast Guard boat surveying 15 miles south of the site also detected nothing.

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  • They discovered some mechanisms such as their exposure on Zillow that could be scaled up and down on the fly, even daily.

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  • They wanted it with robotics...and oh...it would be nice if it could fly!

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  • Flocks of them used to fly to Hong Kong, Bangkok and Hawaii to buy imported European goods more cheaply than they could at home.

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  • Or the commission could punish Boeing by fining any European airline that bought Boeing jets or by impounding new aircraft as they fly into Europe from Seattle.

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  • The lawmakers who drew up the amendment crafted the tax schedule as steeply as they could get away with, targeting only the wealthy and selecting a rate higher than their wildest dreams thought would fly: 7%.

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