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... and encounters a wide variety of strange and wonderful creatures in all manner of bizarre situations. Join Alice as she journeys through Wonderland, trying to make sense of what she finds there. This version is read dramatically, with different readers voicing the different characters. (Summary by Lucy Perry)...

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...ure a rich young miss will buy you very soon,” the Indian doll Brindha said, trying to have a closer look at the twinkling things in her hair. “But...... ...ttle girl yelped, and turned away. Twinklinka’s friend Robbie almost choked, trying not to laugh at that. 14 Days and weeks passed. Many little girls...

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... in but one night.” Kelsey knew in her heart the dwarf did not tell all, but trying to pry it from him before he was ready would be futile, so she set... ...er and her eyes flew open as she whirled around. “Damn, Regan, what are you trying to do? Scare me to death?” Her sister shrugged. “I knocked. You di... ...t in the far corner of the room. Daniel snickered at the thought of the pony trying to use it. He lit a candle he found on the shelf. By the wan ligh... ...t. And then another. The silver light burned brighter. Peter shook his head, trying to clear his eyes. A silver form charged from the trees and brush.... ...ded behind her eyes and she gasped. “What is it?” Rourk said. “I think he’s trying to talk to me,” Kelsey said and then moaned, pressing her fingers ... .... “You touch either of them, and I swear by the Goddess I’ll kill you or die trying.” Dirkk snapped his fingers again and the three wolf- beasts slunk... ...d. How had he gotten vegetables from Raya? He was lying, she decided. He was trying to rattle her. She took the bowl from him and added the veg- etabl... ...rrian’s mouth curved into a smile, but he did not waken. She chewed her lip, trying to summon the nerve to run her hand beneath the covering and down ... ...r back and you can help them. She hesitated, chewing her lip. “What are you trying to do?” The voice came from the right side of her. She whirled to ...

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...shed at an unknown star two centuries before and beg their help. But first, he has the small matter of a mutiny on board his starship, and people are trying to kill him! Written in an era when radios used vacuum tubes, the scientific component of the story is quaint and dated. But Laumer makes the centerpiece of his tale the retelling of how, four years out on the voyage, ...

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...er often visits the real world of London to listen in on bedtime stories told by Mary Darling to her children. One night, Peter is spotted, and while trying to escape, he loses his shadow. On returning to claim his shadow, he wakes Mary's daughter, Wendy Darling. When Wendy succeeds in re-attaching his shadow to him, Peter takes a fancy to her and invites her to Neverland ...

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...was good enough to ride in a race? She scratched the horse on his damp neck, trying to steady her rapid breathing, waiting for the decision that mi... ......” Sandra broke off, her voice thick with regret. Julie averted her head, trying to control her rush of guilt. She still didn’t like to think ab... ...he stranger towering over her. Damn him, he thought it was funny! Wasn’t even trying to hide his grin. Even the haughty horse he led looked amused. ... ...sed by his civility. “I’m very sorry about what I said earlier. Thank you for trying to rescue me from the…mud.” Her diction was precise, almost for... ... “My horse ain’t lame, and I want you to ride her.” Kurt edged behind Cisco, trying to remain unseen. Footsteps thumped closer. “She might need ti... ...dstand was a blur as she called on all her skill to rate the colt, frantically trying to remember everything her mother had ever said. Lazer blasted... ...azer. Plus the colt was the perfect lure. She’d be more malleable if she were trying to earn the jockey ride. And he needed to get close to her. Nee... ...se money is tempting.” He carefully picked his words and glanced back at her, trying to spot her dimple beneath the dirt. She laughed, a melodious s... ...a distinct possibility—he could escape. He waited, fighting the urge to rush, trying to show he wasn't a threat. And finally, she turned. She still ...

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...ouncil members: Ao Kuang, visibly dozing, occasionally snapping awake and trying to look interested; Ao Ch'in, senile, preening her fading bronze sc... ...eng-po, just about the only one he could call friend, but as usual he was trying to wrap his tail around yet another female. Feng-po was living pro... ...f any intelligence that hammer-head Yolbas might speak. Han Chung-li was trying to slide his jelly-fish of a body forward, but just a slight lift i... ...ins, he suddenly realized what specter Kuan-ti had seen, what he had been trying to shout: DEMONS, THE AZGHUN DEMONS! Chapter 5 3140 words "Ho... ...Feng- po, our world is done. You see, I now think I know what Kuan-ti was trying to say to that unthinking school of bottom-feeding flounders at the... ...up wearing our tender guts on the outside." "This is silly. You're just trying to scare me." Any impact Ao Rue had hoped to have was now lost in ... ...s the matter with you. Off in one of your intellectual hazes again? I'm trying to introduce you." "My pardon" was the best Ao Rue could manage. ... ... all under the tails" -- Argh, I've embarrassed her. He went on quickly, trying to slide over his crudity, "By himself, Yolbas is capable of little... ...g worthwhile by being like everyone else." "You are an elitist!" "I'm trying to be special." "Look, Feng-po and Ch'ang-o are coming back." For...

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...dea of a finite Universe housing infinite permutations of everything; is like trying to stuff an elephant into a mouse. It cannot be done. It is i... ...pears from view. This is because the sunlight coming from behind the boat is trying to curve around the boat. The reason the boat almost disappear... ... The Path of Splitness Chapter One: The Universe 25 hitting the boat and trying to get around it. Just like water going around a stone in a st... ... of roiling sunlight, disturbed from its path by going around an object it is trying to avoid. The reason this is a good proof is because when the ... ...he effect of the Path of Splitness. It shows Everythingness and Nothingness trying to come back together after Impetus split them apart. The mark... ...und it to make a complete 3-dimensional spherical Totality. Because both are trying to curve around a flat 2-dimensional Condition of the former 2-... ...e that is Infinite in Length and Width. The curving ends of our Universe are trying to reach a 2-dimensional plane which is Actually Infinite in Len... ...y half the way out. This is the reason why the Energy in our Universe is now trying to come back in again. This is the hidden Dynamic behind why o... ...ely, it destroyed its own organic 2-dimensional structure. Now it is blindly trying to re-organize itself back into cellular structures which will ...

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...e three most advanced countries on the planet to a Third World nation just trying to get its overpopulated head above water. The globalized ocean was... ...e the commerce, the military or the education to attract them. But we are trying to entice more Sikhs to immigrate here. ―As you know India w... ...ve only five in Indus. So we have a long way to go. Right now we are just trying to establish a manufacturing base and an education infrastructure. ... ...more of old Calcutta than modern Mumbai. Do you have the same problems in trying to clean it up? I remember in the old days every morning watching t... ... ―Look at the warring factions in Darfur and Congo. Look at us, honestly trying to make our citizens‘ lives better. Look at Swaziland. I visited th... ... many are unconcerned with Swaziland. But countries like Indus are really trying. I understand your reticence to give some countries money when much... ... But we were ahead of most of the sub-Saharan countries. We are certainly trying! We realize, with the philosopher Schiller that if we are over-cauti... ...cale—too many babies and not enough education or technology. We are still trying to get food in our bellies and you in the West are concerned with d... ...mize the effects as most philanthropists do. She could spend her money on trying to find cures for AIDS, malaria, cholera, or spend money on making ...

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...for young and old. Gold is still sought by those who believe the 4 tale, trying their luck in the local creek and dams. Truth is, no gold had ever ... ...hed with the demon finally surfacing from under the degenerating timbers. Trying to suppress a chuckle, as it was rude to laugh at another’s expense... ...and his boat building adventure. These two angels had to combat many imps trying to swipe timbers, contaminate tar and influence the crowds into moc... ... too many. It does 17 not stop single or those women of his age or older trying to woo him into relationship. The lack of information made Snakele... ...g cricket in side streets or girls jumping rope. A parent has no problems trying to drag junior away from the television set, as reception is so poo... ... Hebrew, I have enough problems with English’. Stella gave up the idea of trying to educate people on the spiritual realm and decided this was her h... ...lled about in a contorted mess. He fought with various parts of his body, trying desperately to untangle himself in front of numerous imps that mock... ... Stella Brown surpasses Teflon; nothing sticks to her. Philip Brown; keep trying, but I don’t like your chances. Snakelex was just about to send the... ...hey can.” “Help out! Don’t make me laugh. They’re doing nothing more than trying to buy the Browns back. You can’t exchange stones with bread Doc.” “...

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...side him. She bent to retrieve her lyre, before seating herself and gazed at him, trying to hide her curiosity. “You wish something further of me, ... ...quiver—they had not been there before she entered the falls. It seemed Apollo was trying to tell her something. She walked over and picked up the w... ... few moments ago, sent searing heat through her veins. There could be no point in trying to deny it any longer. Despite her vow, she’d fallen in lo... ...her?” She caught her breath. Had he any inkling how she felt? Was he deliberately trying to make things even more difficult for her? He stood just... ...ure. Yet, did she really want to love a man who fell out of love so easily? “I’m trying to understand. Are you saying you no longer love her, and ... ...o the moirai, even Zeus withheld his fury from them. “There seems little point in trying to bargain with you any more,” she said as calmly as she c...

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... improving the society will have more benefits for the average person than trying to pamper every individual‟s desires, which are so often called „ri... ...ly do what the government allows. Kino is different. ―In Kino we are trying to bring all of our citizens to a much higher level of democracy. A... ...u can see the positive impact of the ‗one child‘ policy. But in Kino we are trying to go even further than China in more positive ways by licensing p... ...the planet. ―The ineffective expenditure of our limited resources on trying to repair children and adults who have been damaged by incompetent... ... to remedy their inadequacies through education or other means. We are not trying to deny couples having children, only to make certain that they ar... ... licensing is merely determining when the pregnancy can occur. Then we are trying our best to insure that the parents are aware of what a child‘s ne...

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...are two primary examples that illustrate the difficulties that arise when trying to compare and analyze data cross-economy and very often cross-cult... ...institutions. Source: Survey Results We continued our investigation by trying to determine what types of policies were being utilized by each eco...

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... possibly what you think of as your ‗rights‘ you may take many methods of trying to get them. I understand that you will be discussing how to get wh... ...lief in empirical science?‖ --―I don‘t think so because we are not trying to prove a first cause. We are looking at actual causes of effects.... ...e are looking at actual causes of effects. It is psychological, but it is trying to narrow down causes for specific events. So do hydrogen and oxyge... ...lves with a supernatural creator. Why should they concern themselves with trying to disprove a hypothetical being. It would be a waste of their time... ...lieve in absurdities they will commit atrocities‘.‖ --―Are you trying to say that religious belief causes murder or illicit sex?‖ 97 ... ... in terms of how a scientist could try to attack the question. Instead of trying to disprove the theistic beliefs you could start with assuming a god... ...smiss it. If there isn‘t enough evidence then you could be an atheist. So trying to disprove theism might leave you an agnostic, but failing to prove... ...ing done to the world in the name of religion. ―Militant atheism is trying to convert people to the no-god hypothesis. It is no longer merely ... ...contradictions in the scriptures. We have never had to fight the battle of trying to reverse the force of a theological tidal wave. With the belief s...

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...th no poverty, no wars, no ecological problems. “A few people are trying to educate the literate people about the problems. I have to join ... ...y good job in providing educational opportunities, but I’m not aware of any trying to weed out bad parents before they conceive. But as I remember, ... ... I’m the most progressive of the group. What could be more progressive than trying to know God and helping people to get to heaven? But I suppose th... ...), I cringe with pity for the deprived students and for their state that is trying to enter the modern world. I understand the need of some leaders ... ...nd most of the children will be HIV positive. “Nature seems to be trying to limit populations Along with HIV we have ebola, malaria, famin...

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...troduced non-continuous thinking to physics (quantum mechanics) is the one that is trying to reintroduce it now. The notion of "fields" is manifest... ...ychological hypothesis - the psi assumption. Across the fence, pseudo-skeptics are trying to prove (to produce evidence) that psi phenomena do not ... ...h little girls manners. Do you think that all superstitions derive from some lesson trying to be taught that today's society has simply forgotten or... ...e Time Machine"? Why is it that God tolerates Evil and we seek to dispose of it? In trying to resist Evil and limit it, are we acting against the Di... ...ther collective narratives (myths, for instance). Still, psychology is desperately trying to maintain contact with reality and to be thought of as ... ...ng targets" - not rigid and replicable procedures and rituals. Another obstacle in trying to establish the scientific value of psychoanalysis is it...

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...er frozen lips often mangled words beyond understanding, and sometimes, when she was alone in her room she would stay up all night practicing speech, trying to get the sounds right. By day she would play with her toys and listen to the adults and the things they’d said to each other, scandals and inner-palace politics, who was hated, who was admired, suppositions when s...

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...cally inefficient, technically doubtful, environmentally aggravating and management erroneous. The sustainable approach to the problem is a practice trying to “imitate” nature. This means, among others, that rainwater management is regarded not just as a technical work, but primarily as planning of the area emphasizing on functionality, on making the area more attractive ...

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...t it was the middle of the night, only a few hours until morning. He had been trying to figure out the cause of the commotion that spread across... ... “Something otherworldly is at work here,” she said softly. “Believe me, I’ve been trying to figure out its meaning, too.” He flipped through p... ...del said. He eyed the trajectory on the screen. “There.” Saron leaned forward, trying not to lose his balance as he kept his grip. The moon appe... ...n him, she looked up toward the beautiful woman behind Saron. Jacina blinked as if trying to confirm the dreamlike image in front of her. “We ar... ... “Look at them, Saron! Magical powers? Elves? Who’s to say they weren’t the ones trying to use Saria for some experiment to find our weaknesses so ... ...ach holding powers of the mind and the body.” “What is in the vial?” he asked, trying not to sound eager. “The blood of what we once were. ... ...Nothing does since they arrived.” He walked toward the other side of the room, trying to compose himself. “Then what, Jacina. Would you have me ... ...d, bringing her out of her thoughts. Saria peered at him through the mirror, trying not to let her eyes fall to his chest. “What?” “You w... ...d as she studied the expression in her mother’s eyes. She could tell the woman was trying her best to keep her composure. “Go on, Saria.” ...

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...his nation of video clips and sound bites, the United States, is often perceived as trying to impose its narcissistic pseudo-culture upon a world e... ...ime and scam and rigged elections in all the countries they put the gospel to. In trying to put an end to history, they seem to have provoked anot... ...ly lost interest in Afghanistan and until some months before his death Massoud was trying to appeal to it in vain. The West was uninterested, but o... ...categorically hostile to Pakistan, partly for legitimate reasons. Pakistan has been trying ever since to construct new anti-Taliban alliances, as we... ...g often closer to the Chinese model than the Turkish one. I think Turkey is again trying to prove how pro-Western it is and how loyal it is to NAT... ...t non-germanely. But the political elite of Europe is, indeed, divided. France is trying to reassert its waning authority over an increasingly unr... ...er". While France is enmeshed in its Byzantine machinations, Spain and Britain are trying to obstruct the ominous re- emergence of French-German dom... ...only clear, consistent and cohesive voice is America's. The new members of NATO are trying to demonstrate their allegiance - nay, obsequiousness - t... ...hevronTexaco, and Valero Energy purchase nearly half of Iraq's oil exports. Iraq is trying to diversify but its interlocutors are currently confined...

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...ue of the product attributable to labour or if business firms insisted on trying to "exploit" labour by refusing to pay a wage corresponding to the ... ... Countries - from Mexico to Israel, and from Macedonia to Guatemala - are trying to tap into the considerable wealth of their diasporas by issuing r... ...siness decisions are already enshrined in EU directives. The unions are trying to modernize in form as well. In Britain, trade unions put technolo... ...certain market share as its goal (and will, therefore, not tolerate anyone trying to prevent it from attaining this market share) and any action whic... ...It is tempting to say that it is structural. It seems to be the result of trying to adapt to a brave new world: new technologies, new determinants o...

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... and bite, or like huge waves that can suddenly strike the side of a ship, trying to sink it. Learn how to sail over them with a firm grip on the ...

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...lllOme­ times encouter quite serious and thoughtful skepticism on the value or practicability of trying to hide anythirtR ... particularly if the tech... ... in doins its job. -iSrNSA spends tens of millions of dollars and tens of thousands of man-hours trying to discover what Soviet COMSEC is like. Despit... ...secured (protected). For the past two years or more, we and the Department of Commerce have been trYing to sort it out. Not the least of the ditlicult...

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...ss and retreats into the depths of his memories. Aware of what was happening to him Grailem decided that the best option was not to co-operate. Trying to re-activate him at the remote military outpost they could not bring his consciousness to the surface. The military, in desperation used a very powerful mind control drug mixed with his biotic fluid to try to bring h...

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...uld be heard approaching from the distance. The sidewalk had pedestrians and both men crashed past them with barely a thought for the startled people trying to stay out of their way. A short way further down the sidewalk they reached a row of boarded up shop fronts and empty market carts. Without stopping, Mack looked back. The men following them were hurrying along beh...

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...n either case he doesn‘t know why. But since we can‘t do an instant psychoanalysis on people with problems, we will have to limit ourselves to trying... ...caine whenever they tripped a switch. Then the experimenter stopped giving the drug. The chimp hit the switch over 1000 times before giving up trying... ...t brag that ‗I was drunk from Friday night through Sunday night.‘ Or ‗I was so drunk I slept through my final exam.‘ If adults drink and I am trying... ... its poverty rate has doubled in the last ten years. But they have their criminal gangs and there is the mistrust of others. Many Zimbabweans trying... ... POWER IN SPORTS ―Athletes may begin by wanting to play, but as they rise to the top of their sports winning becomes primary. You may be trying... ...epresentative of God. The wealthy church was stuck with over a billion dollars in settlements to the victims.‖ —―Those of us who are trying... ...ude genital surgery to cut the clitoris so that sexual pleasure will be reduced. It was probably started by men who could have only one orgasm trying... ...ginity through consensual sex or even rape. ―I see so many varieties of power in the sexual areas. Take exhibitionism. Male ‗flashers‘ trying... ...s outside the law wanting to convert a religious or a secular country to their own brand of religious beliefs. Look at the American preachers trying...

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...INTRODUCTION AND FULL PROJECT INDEX By way of an introduction to these papers I want to begin by trying to give the reader some basic idea of energy because basically that what these papers are all about. We are all familiar with energy after all it comes out of the electricity socket in the wall, it runs the televisio...