'Decorative artist' finds only beauty in work with glass.

The Boston Herald;  August 15, 1997 ;   Silver, Joanne;   318 words ......the basement of his Martha's Vineyard house, where the bright July sunlight streamed in the open doors. It glinted off the jagged surface of the three tiers of a towering glass vase, creating a field of stars against the vessel's nighttime blue. The sun also...

Asteroid, actors in `Armageddon' end up as lumps of coal.(Metropolitan...

The Washington Times;  July 1, 1998 ;   Arnold, Gary;   589 words ...We're coming in hot! a character screams in Armageddon as he is about to crash-land on the jagged surface of a giant asteroid heading toward Earth. If we're lucky, history will repeat itself within a matter of weeks, leaving Hollywood...

Sojourner Explores Martian Geology; Scientists Field Flood of Data, Images

The Washington Post;  July 7, 1997 ;   Kathy Sawyer;   787 words ...The Sojourner, the first mobile geologist on Mars, nosed around the jagged surface today with instructions to investigate its first target rock: a football-sized lump dubbed "Barnacle Bill." The Pathfinder team...

Columbia photos indicate wing damage.

The Orlando Sentinel (Orlando, Fla.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  February 7, 2003 ;     787 words ......about 60 seconds before breaking up over central Texas. High-resolution photography from a ground-based camera indicates a jagged surface on the leading edge of Columbia's left wing near the fuselage, according to a report in the Feb. 10 issue of Aviation Week...

Air Force Photos Indicate Serious Damage to Shuttle Wing before Breakup.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News;  February 7, 2003 ;     787 words ......about 60 seconds before breaking up over central Texas. High-resolution photography from a ground-based camera indicates a jagged surface on the leading edge of Columbia's left wing near the fuselage, according to a report in the Feb. 10 issue of Aviation Week...

Keep it sharp

FDM;  December 1, 1998 ;   Effner, Jim;   787 words ......a useable state. A perfectly sharpened edge of a cutting tool viewed microscopically has the appearance of an irregular jagged surface measuring from 3 to 5 microns across. Depending on the knife metal alloy and material machined, cutting tools function best...

Malhotra checks on friend: Carolina's Letowski reportedly doing OK.

Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);  October 19, 2006 ;     621 words ......shoulder struck Letowski flush in the side of the head. Unconscious before he hit the ice, Letowski's face dragged across the jagged surface as his body continued to spin. Letowski, who played 154 games for the Blue Jackets from 2003 to 2006, was taken off the...

Probing silicon's complex surface structure.

Advanced Materials & Processes;  June 1, 1997 ;     467 words ......microscope (HREM) to develop images of the Si (111) surface with 7x7 reconstruction that reveal a beautiful symmetry when the jagged surface is seen from above. These images are the first to show all three levels of atoms at the same time, says Lawrence Marks...

Many pumped over new student recreation center at WVU

Charleston Daily Mail;  February 20, 2001 ;   DAN LeROY;   787 words ......wall is a one-of-a-kind creation, Taylor said. It was built by Nicros of Minneapolis and features 750 hand holds across its jagged surface. Climbers will have to take safety classes before they're allowed on the wall. But Taylor expects that because West Virginia...

Piasa Bird to show flying colors.

Telegraph (Alton, IL);  August 4, 2007 ;     624 words ......were the intensely hot weather, which quickly dries the acrylic paint, and broken, loose or flaking rocks on the painting's jagged surface. He also had to remove dirt, wasp nests and mud daubers from the painting area, along with dodging a pesky bumblebee. I...

SECRETS OF SUCCESSFUL BALLAST TANK COATING.

Marine Log;  July 1, 2001 ;     511 words ......back to produce a rounded edge. Areas of weld splatter should be ground smooth. Rough welds should be smoothed to remove jagged surface imperfections. Skip welds result in corrosion of unprotected areas and should therefore be filled. Areas of structural deterioration...

Film plastics in compost--wrestling with the lightweights

BioCycle;  February 1, 2003 ;   Spencer, Robert;   787 words ......has a tendency to catch on moving parts of bag openers, tines of turning machines, stars of star screens, and any other jagged surface on conveyors and trommel screens. It can also clog the intake openings to fans, air ventilators and liquid pumps, and wrap...

Mooning over the dust rings of Jupiter.(photos reveal new information)

Science News;  September 19, 1998 ;   Cowen, Ron;   715 words ......Philip R. Christensen of Arizona State University in Tempe. The large temperature variation on Phobos and the moon's lack of jagged surface features suggest that its topmost layer has been ground into a fine powder that might be as deep as 1 meter, he says. NASA...

Yellowcake

The Texas Observer;  January 12, 2007 ;   Welsome, Eileen;   787 words ......an exposed new vein of ore. It is vivid yellow-the color of sunflowers, the color of corn pollen-and undulates across the jagged surface like a snake. Leonard is so consumed with covetousness that he reaches for the cold wall to steady himself. Then he straightens...

MAGELLAN CASTING VENUS IN NEW LIGHT

The Boston Globe;  September 24, 1990 ;   David L. Chandler, Globe Staff;   787 words ......ah-ah) by the Hawaiians (a name believed to be derived from the sound made by people walking barefoot across the hard, jagged surface). Other pictures show volcanic calderas -- the large, irregularly shaped openings from which lava spews out. And one picture...