To Kaplan, a senior writer for Newsweek and the author of "The Silicon Boys," on the history and culture of Silicon Valley, the 2000 result is all, as the title of his book suggests, a gigantic, often hilarious accident.
SHANGHAI — Severe snowstorms over broad swaths of eastern and central China have wreaked havoc on traffic throughout the country, creating gigantic passenger backups, spawning accidents and leaving at least 24 people dead, according to state news reports.
Around the time of the sale, Uralkali was coming under intense pressure from Russian authorities because of an industrial accident that caused gigantic sinkholes, some up to 50 stories deep, to open under the town of Berezniki, about 990 miles east of Moscow.
Nadar remained a passionate aeronaut until he and his wife and other passengers were injured in an accident in Le Géant, a gigantic balloon he had built.
Yet despite this, the inherent dangers of pumping highly explosive materials from under the oceans means accidents happen, from the gigantic blowouts like the Deepwater disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, to the weekly leaks that foul the North Sea.
Maybe that first, gigantic deficit the Reaganites piled up was an accident, just a combination of deluded "supply side" tax cuts and a huge bag of good stuff for the Pentagon.
With the publication of "Dreamcatcher," his first full-length novel since his accident, and written while he convalesced, King offers his gigantic readership the opportunity to see whether he's still got the stuff.
Over the past year, Amanda Bynes' vehicular accidents have been well-documented by the tabloids, while "Gigantic" star Ryan Rottman was charged with drunk driving in 2011.
The right and left margins of the Kindle are gigantic Previous Page and Next Page clickers; it's almost impossible to avoid clicking them by accident.
The gigantic ballistic missile pictured above is the result of a chain of assumptions that starts with an imagined traffic accident on the streets of Pakistan… sort of.
