Slamming the Euro Door

Boards creaking, doors slamming.

I could hear doors slamming.

(Door slamming, footsteps on stairs)

Think. A door slamming or the sound of tires.

That's what cities do. That's how they create value, is by slamming things together.

It was like a door slamming in my head, and I thought I was dead.

Americans loved George Washington, but it didn't take long for newspapers to start slamming him on everything from domestic policy to his political principles.

In order to have the car seat approved, you need to pass certain federal standards, all of which involve slamming your car into a direct frontal crash.

While the legal case is still ongoing, the court of public opinion has been quick to denounce the couple on social media, slamming them for their behavior and logic.

Her shadow once, fumbling the chain on her door, then the door slamming fearfully shut, only the barking and the music jazz filtering as it does, day and night into the hall.

As Jared Diamond and others have shown us, this is how civilizations commit suicide, by slamming their foot on the accelerator at the exact moment when they should be putting on the brakes.

It has few training programs, but high benefits for the unemployed and strong restrictions against firing workers. Put all of this together, and it is like slamming a door in the face of young minority men looking for work.

America s deepening recession is slamming China s export sector, just as it has everywhere else in Asia. The immediate problem is a credit crunch not so much in China as in the United States and Europe, where many small and medium size importers cannot get the trade credits they need to buy inventory from abroad.

Paul Krugman, a Nobel laureate who also writes a newspaper column, has made a habit of slamming the latest generation of models in macroeconomics for neglecting old fashioned Keynesian truths. Paul Romer, one of the originators of new growth theory, has accused some leading names, including the Nobel laureate Robert Lucas, of what he calls mathiness using math to obfuscate rather than clarify.

The remaining step slamming two pieces of HEU together to create a critical mass and an explosion is easy the blueprints can be downloaded from the Internet. Indeed, the secret of the hydrogen bomb was published in 1979 in an article by Howard Morland in The Progressive magazine, sparking a failed legal suit by the US government to suppress it.

It's been 110 years since Georges Méliès sent a spaceship slamming into the eye of the man on the moon. So how far have visual effects come since then? Working closely with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, Don Levy takes us on a visual journey through special effects, from the fakery of early technology to the seamless marvels of modern filmmaking.