GALE CRATER I AM IN YOU!!!" The descent through the atmosphere after a 570-million-km journey from Earth had been billed as the "seven minutes of terror" - the time it would take to complete a series of high-risk, automated manoeuvres that would slow the rover from an entry speed of 20,000km/h to allow its wheels to set down softly.
The bishop capped his sardonic disputation of evolutionary theory by turning to his opponent and wryly asking, "Is it on your grandfather's or grandmother's side that you claim descent from the apes?" Huxley slowly rose and said that while he would not be ashamed to have a monkey for an ancestor, he would be ashamed to be connected to a man who used great gifts to obscure the truth.
Personally, I would have loved something like this for my recent stay in China because first of all, it's embarrassing enough not knowing Mandarin and you lose infinitely more points when you have to admit to someone that while you are of Chinese descent, you can't read any characters if your life depended on it.
If you are of European descent, you should avoid pieces dealing with racial equality and racism because you cannot possibly relate no matter how Latino or African American you are "on the inside".
If you're of Mexican descent, you've probably grown a little tired of U.S. stereotypes and misinformation about Cinco de Mayo.
If you are of Asian descent, you most likely have dry-type earwax.
Unless you are of Arab descent, you probably won't go to the West Bank, or get into the Dome of the Rock; but, unless you're black, you probably wouldn't go to Watts or Compton, either, and they are both larger and more violent.
And do me a favor, you see that target there on 3321 code at 335 climbing, don't know who he is, but you got that USA 583 if you need to descent him down, you can, nobody.
If you are aware of your ancestry: If you are of Eastern European descent, you are probably Ashkenazic.
It's one of those flights in which, almost as soon as you reach your maximum altitude, you begin your descent, and within minutes you're looking down on a diorama of palm trees growing incongruously in green fields, and within seconds you hit the ground and everyone bursts into applause.
