On Wednesday, around 11 a.m., the surveyors called 911 to say they had found a piece of damaged machinery.
A laminar piece of damaged bone is situated within the pelvic opening just posterior to the pubis.
One of the less calamitous pieces of damage done by Hurricane Sandy was this: It knocked the facade off a wall on South Street just north of Broad Street near the East River, revealing a time capsule of hand-carved 1970s graffiti that included ancient phone numbers and declarations of love.
All the same it is an unfortunate piece of collateral damage, something the authorities have so far failed to address.
Among the tasks that have delayed resumption of flight are study of the shuttle's giant fuel tank and the testing of modifications that keep it from shedding insulating foam, a piece of which damaged the Columbia's wing on liftoff a year ago and doomed the craft.
While a rare few freelancers say they have been able to wrangle concessions from hotels that promise them a piece of the damages a group must pay the hotel if it cancels, the vast majority have to chalk it up as a loss.
Change was often discussed during the 2008 election and after the financial meltdown, but Florida these days often resembles the character played by its native son Mickey Rourke in "The Wrestler": a broken-down piece of meat, damaged and sincere, but a little too messed up to drop familiar habits.
Because it elected to continue operating Envisat until it had too little fuel to be powered to a lower orbit, as international guidelines prescribe, ESA could be held liable for negligence, or even gross negligence, if Envisat or pieces of it damage an active satellite in the 100-plus years Envisat will remain in orbit, according to the IISL analysis.
This was always a fragile minority view, and it has become a significant piece of the collateral damage inflicted by the Administration's blunders in Iraq.
