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And there it was," said Zaphod, "clear as day. A whole section in the middle of both brains that related only to each other and not to anything else around them. Some bastard had cauterized all the synapses and electronically traumatised those two lumps of cerebellum." Ford stared at him, aghast. Trillian had turned white. "Somebody did that tointo your brain?" "Yeah." "Well, what were they, for God's sake?" Zaphod looked at him in silence again for a moment. Then he looked away. "Z.B.," he said. At that moment a steel shutter slammed down behind them and gas started to pour into the chamber. "I'll tell you about it later," choked Zaphod as all three passed out. you?" whispered Ford. "Yeah." "But have you any idea who? Or why?" "Why? I can only guess. But I do know who the bastard was." "You know? How do you know?" "Because they left their initials burnt into the cauterized synapses. They left them there for me to see." Ford stared at him in horror and felt his skin begin to crawl. "Initials? Burnt

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The Improbability-proof control cabin of the Heart of Gold looked like a perfectly conventional spaceship except that it was perfectly clean because it was so new. Some of the control seats hadn't had the plastic wrapping taken off yet. The cabin was mostly white, oblong, and about the size of a smallish restaurant. In fact it wasn't perfectly oblong: the two long walls were raked round in a slight parallel curve, and all the angles and corners were contoured in excitingly chunky shapes. The truth of the matter is that it would have been a great deal simpler and more practical to build the cabin as an ordinary three-dimensional oblong rom, but then the designers would have got miserable. As it was the cabin looked excitingly purposeful, with large video set into the convex wall. In one corner a robot sat humped, its gleaming brushed steel head hanging loosely between its gleaming brushed steel knees. It too was fairly new, but though it was beautifully constructed and polished it somehow looked as if the various parts of its more or less humanoid body didn't quite fit properly. In fact they fitted perfectly well, but something in its bearing suggested that they might have fitted better. Zaphod Beeblebrox paced nervously up and down the cabin, brushing his hands over pieces of gleaming equipment and giggling with excitement.

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The study indicated that a quarter of those aged between 13 and 17 felt under more pressure to sleep with someone at this time of year and more than two thirds admitted drinking more.

Much of the pressure came from peers and boys felt under more pressure than girls, with 77 per cent saying they were encouraged by their friends, compared to 44 per cent of girls.
Despite the high rate of conception over the Christmas period, the research showed that two thirds of parents still believed that their own teenage children were not having sex.
Only 20 per cent of parents thought that their child was likely to have sex at this time of year, while 34 per cent of teenagers said they were more likely to sleep with someone in December and January.
Gill Frances, the chairman of the government's Teenage Advisory Group, said: "We have got solid research which shows young people are much more likely to get pregnant over Christmas than at other times of the year.
"I know that many parents are already doing a brilliant job of talking to their teenagers about sex and I'd urge all parents to give it a try."

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The pub was silent for a moment longer, and then, embarrassingly enough, the man with the raucous laugh did it again. The girl he had dragged along to the pub with him had grown to loathe him dearly over the last hour or so, and it would ." Ford was running after him very fast. Very very fast. "And then I'll do it again!" yelled Arthur. "And when I've finished I will take all the little bits, and I will jump on them!" Arthur didn't notice that the men were running from the bulldozers; he didn't notice that Mr Prosser was staring hectically into the sky. What Mr Prosser had noticed was that huge yellow somethings were screaming through the clouds. Impossibly huge yellow somethings. "And I will carry on jumping on them," yelled Arthur, still running, "until I get probably have been a great satisfaction to her to know that in a minute and a half or so he would suddenly evaporate into a whiff of hydrogen, ozone and carbon monoxide. However, when the moment came she would be too busy evaporating herself to notice it. The barman cleared his throat. He heard himself say: "Last orders, please." The huge yellow machines began to sink downward and to move faster. Ford knew the council for every penny it's got! I'll have you hung, drawn and quartered! And whipped! And boiled ... until ... until ... until you've had enough

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start of the shift, as always, one of the guards had earlier accessed the security system with a personal password. To Corky, the elaborate status display on the screen revealed, among many other things, that the house-perimeter alarm had been activated, making it impossible to enter Palazzo Rospo by window or door without triggering sirens.According to Ned Hokenberry, the three-eyed freak—now the [543] two-eyed freak, now the dead two-eyed freak—the perimeter alarm usually wasn’t engaged until eleven o’clock or even midnight. This evening they had rooms in the mansion. Neither was in two panic rooms in siege mode, engaging their locks by remote. They could no longer be opened using their hidden on-site lock releases. No one could take refuge in them.The house-perimeter alarm could be armed or disarmed simply by selecting from a YES-NO option. Currently the YES was lit on the screen. Corky used the mouse to click the NO.Now, with a door key, he could enter Palazzo Rospo as though it were closed up early.Corky wondered why.Perhaps they had been spooked by certain black boxes and the contents thereof.Delighted to have made them uneasy and yet still have slipped this far past their defenses, Corky began to sing the Grinch’s theme from The Grinch Who Stole Christmas. The gas mask lent the tune a wonderfully spooky, even savage quality.Mick Sachatone, poor dead Mick in his Bart Simpson pajamas, had hacked the Manheim security system by linking to itoff-site armed-response company that maintained a 24/7 line to this room. He’d given Corky some rudimentary instruction in its operation.First, Corky checked the status of the two panic

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seconds, they rumpled and swirled and noisily assembled themselves into a tall human figure, as if an invisible Westwood neighborhood, in a fine Nantucket-style house with cedar-shingle siding so silvered by time that not even the rain could darken it, which suggested that the silvering might be an applied patina.Spetz-Mogg’s British accent was eccentric enough to be captivating, inconsistent enough to have been acquired during a long visit to those shores rather than the aura of a guardian angel, though surely it was. This felt ... menacing.The paper man turned from Fric and flung himself at the bay windows. When the crackling newsprint hit the glass, it ceased to be paper anymore, became a shadow, a flowing darkness, that swarmed through the beveled panes in the very way that it had pulsed through the ornaments on the Christmas tree the previous night.The phantom faded, vanished, as though it had traveled by glass into the rain, and then had ridden on the rain to some place far away and unthinkable.Fric was alone once more. Or seemed to be.by birth and upbringing.The professor welcomed Ethan and Hazard into his graciously than obsequiously. He answered their questions not in a spirit of thoughtful cooperation, but in a nervous, wordy gush.He wore a roomy FUBU shirt and baggy low-rider pants with snap pockets on the legs, looking as ridiculous as any white man trying the hood, twice as ridiculous because he was forty-eight. Every time he crossed his legsman had been standing there all the time and as if the blown newsprint had adhered to his heretofore unseen form.This did not have

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Regardless of how rough we may appear on the exterior, each of us has a human heart.Corky himself had a weakness for old Shirley Temple said.“I’ll be there,” said the chastened Trotter.“Gonna take a magic carpet ride.”After replacing the second magazine with a third, Corky slipped the Glock into his shoulder holster and walked out to the veranda.He proceeded slowly through the rain to the Land Rover, boldly turning his back to the house.He drove down out of the Malibu canyons toward the coast.The sky was an open beaker, pouring forth not rain but the universal solvent for which medieval alchemists had sought in vain. All around him, the hills were melting. The lowlands were dissolving. The edge of the continent deliquesced into the tumultuous sea.movies, in which he indulged once or twice a year. Without embarrassment.As Trotter watched, Corky emptied the 9-mm magazine, shattering one porcelain with every shot.[424] In the months since he had unintentionally wounded Mina Reynerd in the foot, he had become remarkably proficient with handguns. Until recently, he’d never much wanted to use a firearm in the service of chaos, for it had seemed too cold, too impersonal. But he was warming to the instrument.He replaced the first magazine with a second and finished off the Lladro collection. The humid air was full of a chalky dust and the smell of gunfire.“Seven o’clock,” he

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away from each other unbloodied.This morning, in the hallway outside the kitchen, when Fric had almost told Mr. Truman about the mirror man and Moloch and all of it, he had come perilously close to being considered as crazy as Barbra Streisand’s two-headed cat. He wouldn’t make that mistake again.His mother had once been committed to a booby hatch the tea room, in the room, Fric kept reminding himself, “Sandwiches, sandwiches,” because he worried that when he finally encountered a maid or porter, he would become tongue-tied and forget what lie he had meant to tell.By nature, he was not a good liar. In a time and place where you needed to lie merely to pass for normal, in a place and time when he needed to lie to survive, being a lousy liar could get him killed.“ Sandwiches, sandwiches.”He was a moronically bad liar..They would think, Like mother, like son.His mother had been released after ten days.If Fric started talking about mirror men, they would never let him out. Not in ten days, not in ten years.Worse, if he were in the booby hatch, Moloch would know exactly where to find him. There was no place to hide in a padded cell.Carrying the picnic hamper as if he were on an Easter-egg hunt, stealthily collecting quake lights in a back staircase, in a back hall, in

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the Swiss-made generators in the bunker were disabled, then Frankenstein-castle banks of twenty-year batteries, each as big as a casket standing on end, instantly came into service. These supported limited emergency lighting, all s, bet there flashlights were at all times plugged into electrical outlets in the baseboard, continuously charging. If the power failed, the quake lights at once switched on, providing enough pathway illumination to allow everyone to exit safely from the mansion in the darkest hours of the deepest night. Furthermore, they could be unplugged and carried as though they were ordinary flashlights.Like the cover plate on the electrical outlet in which it was seated, the plastic casing of each flashlight matched the color of the baseboard on which it rested: beige against limestone baseboardthe the city’s electric power fail, should the generators be wrecked, should the giant twenty-year batteries prove useless, there were many earthquake lights distributed throughout the house. Personally, Fric figured such a series of failures was likely only in the event of an invasion of extraterrestrials with magnetic-pulse weapons.Anyway, according to Mrs. McBee, there were 214 quake lights, which meant you could safely

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Eventually, Brittina clattered up from their love nest with the intention of rattling off to the bathroom.[389] Reaching under the bed, Corky retrieved the pistol where earlier he had hidden it.When he shot her twice in the back, he half expected Brittina to shatter into bone splinters and dust, as if she were an ancient mummy made brittle by two centuries of dehydration, but she only dropped dead in a pale, angular heap.that she would be hired because, first of all, the idiot movie star would be impressed by her dramatic appearance. Cadaverous paleness, a gaunt face, and the body of an anorexic nun would be seen as proof that Brittina cared little for the pleasures of the flesh, that she enjoyed the mind, that she was therefore a genuine intellectual.In the entertainment with a single bed because she’d never had a lover and had expected to remain a virgin. Corky had romanced her as easily as he could have crushed a hummingbird in his fist.The narrow bed stood in a room on the top floor of a narrow two-story Victorian house. The lot was deep but too narrow to qualify as a residential building site under current city codes.Almost sixty years ago, just after the war, an eccentric dog fancier had designed and built the curious place. He lived in it with two greyhounds and two whippets.Eventually he’d been paralyzed mattered. Manheim would believe, therefore, that appearance equaled reality in other professions, as well.Furthermore, Brittina Dowd

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beyond reach, to seek it in disregard of reason, is the fateful rock in. an endless fog.Anyway, he hadn’t brought the elevator to a halt in order to puzzle out the words of the might-be warning. Heart knocking, he pressed STOP because he’d , lower. He was going to be compressed meat in a can.He put his hands over his ears to block the ghostly voice.As the air seemed to grow hotter, thicker, Ethan heard himself straining to breathe, gasping on each inhalation, wheezing with each exhalation, and he was reminded of Fric in an asthma attack. At the thought of the boy, his heart hammered harder than ever, and with one hand he reached toward the START button on the control panel.As the walls continued to close upon him, they seemed to press into his mind suddenly been overcome with the conviction that when the doors slid open, the garage would not lie beyond them.Crazily, he expected thick fog and black water. Or a precipice and a yawning abyss. The voice would be out there, beyond the water, beyond the chasm, and he would have nowhere to go but toward it.In another elevator, Monday afternoon, ascending toward Dunny’s apartment, he had been stricken by claustrophobia.Here again, the four walls crowded closer than they had been when he’d first boarded the cab. The ceiling squeezed lower

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number or from a crank, or the result of a technical glitch in the system.Some people, the Face among them, believe that a portion of such calls originate with deceased friends or loved ones trying to reach us from Beyond. For some reason, according to this theory, the dead can make your phone ring, but they can’t as easily send their voices death; therefore, all you hear is silence or peculiar static, or on rare occasion
English, but also that sometimes spoke French, Spanish, Greek, and other languages.Most of these whispery entities offered only scraps of sentences or disjointed words that made little sense, providing insufficient data for analysis.Other, more complete “messages” could sometimes be construed as
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whispery scraps of words as if from a great distance.Upon investigating this subject after Ming explained the purpose of Line 24, Ethan had learned that researchers in the paranormal had made recordings on telephone lines left open between test numbers, operating on the assumption that if the dead could initiate a call, they might also take advantage of an open line specifically set aside to detect their communications.Next, the researchers amplified and enhanced the faint sounds on the recordings. Indeed, they discovered voices that often spokepredictions or even dire warnings. They were always short, however, and often enigmatic.

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shadow of a darting bird. You’re a little mouse, Aelfric, an almost invisible perfect little mouse.”Freddie Nielander said a lot of stupid things.Fric didn’t hold any of them against her.She’d been so beautiful for so long that nobody really listened to her. They were overwhelmed by the visuals.When no one ever listened to you, really listened, youfrom anything but a mirror. No explanation short of a miracle explained why she hadn’t gone as crazy as a nuclear-waste-dump rat a long time ago.Arriving in the library, Fric discovered that the furniture in the reading area nearest the entrance had been slightly rearranged to accommodate a twelve-foot Christmas tree. The fresh forestal smell of evergreens was so strong that he expected to see squirrels sitting in the armchairs and busily storing acorns in the antique Chinese vases. could begin to lose the ability to tell whether or not you were making sense when you talked.Fric understood this danger because no one really listened to him, either. In his case, they weren’t overwhelmed by the visuals. They were underwhelmed.Without exception, people loved Freddie Nielander on sight, and they wanted her to love them in return. Even if they had listened to her, therefore, they wouldn’t have disagreed with her, and even when she made no sense whatsoever, people praised her wit.Poor Freddie didn’t get any truthful feedback

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Though unplanned, the exercise with the poker proved cathartic. Not that he’d taken pleasure in the violence. He had not.The decision to murder her had really been as unemotional as any decision to purchase the stock of a blue-chip corporation, and the killing itself had been conducted with the same cool efficiency with which he would have executed anyan economist, his mother surely had understood.His alibi had been unassailable. He inherited her estate. Life anyway.Now, as he finished the candy bar, he felt sugar-soothed and chocolate-coddled.He still wanted to kill Reynerd, but the unwise urgency of the compulsion had passed. He would take time to plan the hit.When he acted, he would follow his scheme faithfully. This time, pillow would not become poker.Noticing that the yellow slicker had shed a lot of water on the seat, he sighed but did nothing. Corky was too committed an anarchist to care about the upholstery.Besides, he had Reynerd to brood about. A perpetual adolescent [84] inside a dour exterior, Rolf had been unable to resist the temptation to deliver the sixth box in person. Looking for a thrill.The fool had thought that perimeter security cameras did not exist solely because he himself could not spot them.Are there no other planets in the solar system, Corky had asked him, just because you can’t

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added also coils of rope, three to each boat. Slender they looked, but strong, silken to the touch, grey of hue like the elven-cloaks.`What are these? ' asked Sam, handling one that lay upon the greensward.`Ropes indeed! ' answered an Elf from the boats. 'Never travel far without a rope! And one that is long and strong and light. Such are these. They may be a help in many needs.''You don't need to tell me that! ' said Sam. `I came without They will not sink, lade them as you will; but they are wayward if mishandled. It would be wise if you accustomed yourselves to stepping in and out, here where there is a landing-placeany and I've been worried ever since. But I was wondering what these were made of, knowing a bit about rope-making: it's in the family as you might say.'`They are made of hithlain,' said the Elf, `but there is no time now to instruct you in the art of their making. Had we known that this craft delighted you, we could have taught you much. But now alas! unless you should at some time return hither, you must be content with our gift. May it serve you well! '`Come! ' said Haldir. `All is now ready for you. Enter the boats! But take care at first! ''Heed the words! ' said the other Elves. 'These boats are light-built, and they are crafty and unlike the boats of other folk.

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passage is blocked behind us now and there is only one way out--on the other side of the mountains. I fear from the sounds that boulders have been piled up, and the trees uprooted and thrown across the gate. I am sorry; for the trees were beautiful, and had stood so long.'`I felt that something horrible was near from the moment that my foot first an arched passage with a level floor leading on into the dark.`Let us sit and rest and have something to eat, here on the landing, since we can't find a dining
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touched the water,' said Frodo. 'What was the thing, or were there many of them? ''I do not know,' answered Gandalf, 'but the arms were all guided by one purpose. Something has crept, or has been driven out of dark waters under the mountains. There are older and fouler things than Orcs in the deep places of the world.' He did not speak aloud his thought that whatever it was that dwelt in the lake, it had seized on Frodo first among all the Company.Boromir muttered under his breath, but the echoing stone magnified the sound to a hoarse whisper that all could hear: `In the deep places of the world! And thither we are going against my wish. Who will lead us now in this deadly dark? ''I will,' said Gandalf, 'and Gimli shall walk with me. Follow my staff! 'As the wizard passed on ahead up the great steps, he held his staff aloft, and from its tip there came a faint radiance. The wide stairway was sound and undamaged. Two hundred steps they counted, broad and shallow; and at the top they found

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of the Great Ring of him that we do not name; but we believed that it perished from the world in the ruin of his first realm. Isildur took it! That is tidings indeed.'`Alas! yes,' said Elrond. `Isildur took it, as should not have been. It should have been cast then into Orodruin's fire nigh at hand where it was made. But few marked what Isildur did. He alone stood by his father in that last mortal contest; and by Gil-galad only Círdan stood, and I. But Isildur would not listen to our counsel.
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was indeed,' answered Elrond gravely. `But my memory reaches back even to the Elder Days. Eärendil was my sire, who was born in Gondolin before its fall; and my mother was Elwing, daughter of Dior, son of Lúthien of Doriath. I have seen three ages in the West of the world, and many defeats, and many fruitless victories.`I was the herald of Gil-galad and marched with his host. I was at the Battle of Dagorlad before the Black Gate of Mordor, where we had the mastery: for the Spear of Gil-galad and the Sword of Elendil, Aiglos and Narsil, none could withstand. I beheld the last combat on the slopes of Orodruin, where Gil-galad died, and Elendil fell, and Narsil broke beneath him; but Sauron himself was overthrown, and Isildur cut the Ring from his hand with the hilt-shard of his father's sword, and took it for his own.'At this the stranger, Boromir, broke in. `So that is what became of the Ring!' he cried. `If ever such a tale was told in the South, it has long been forgotten. I have heard

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ring of mine causing such a disturbance! It is a pity that Gandalf did not find out more sooner. I could have brought the thing here myself long ago without so much trouble. I have thought several times of going back to Hobbiton for it; but I am getting old, and they would not let me: Gandalf and Elrond, I mean. They seemed to think that the Enemy was looking high and low for me, and would make mincemeat of me, if he caught me reluctance. `It looks just the same as ever it did.'`Well, I should just like to see it for a moment,' said Bilbo.When he had dressed, Frodo found that while he slept the Ring had been hung about his neck on a new chain, light but strong. Slowly he drew it out. Bilbo put out his hand. But Frodo quickly drew back the Ring. To his distress and amazement he found that he was no longer looking at Bilbo; a shadow seemed to have fallen between them, and through it he found himself eyeing a little wrinkled creature tottering about in the Wild.'And Gandalf said: "The Ring has passed on, Bilbo. It would do no good to you or to others, if you tried to meddle with it again." Odd sort of remark, just like Gandalf. But he said he was looking after you, so I let things be. I am frightfully glad to see you safe and sound.' He paused and looked at Frodo doubtfully.`Have you got it here?' he asked in a whisper. `I can't help feeling curious, you know, after all I've heard. I should very much like just to peep at it again.'`Yes, I've got it,' answered Frodo, feeling a strange

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kings of Middle-earth. Gil-galad is Starlight in their tongue. With Elendil, the Elf-friend, he went to the land of———''No!' said Strider interrupting, 'I do not think that tale should be told now with the servants of the Enemy at hand. If we win through to the house of Elrond, you may hear it there, told in full.''Then tell us some other tale of the old days,' begged Sam; 'a tale about the Elves before the fading time. I would dearly like to hear rolled He walked alone and sorrowing.He peered between the hemlock-leaves And saw in wander flowers of goldUpon her mantle and her sleeves, And her hair like shadow following.Enchantment healed his weary feetmore about Elves; the dark seems to press round so close.''I will tell you the tale of Tinúviel,' said Strider, 'in brief - for it is a long tale of which the end is not known; and there are none now, except Elrond, that remember it aright as it was told of old. It is a fair tale, though it is sad, as are all the tales of Middle-earth, and yet it may lift up your hearts.' He was silent for some time, and then he began not to speak but to chant softly:The leaves were long, the grass was green, The hemlock-umbels tall and fair,And in the glade a light was seen Of stars in shadow shimmeringa pipe unseen,And light of stars was in her hair, And in her raiment glimmering.
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have - more sense in their noses. For they sniff danger ahead which you walk right into; and if they run to save themselves, then they run the right way. You must forgive them all; for though their hearts are faithful, to face fear of Barrow-wights is not what they were made for. See, here they come again, bringing all their the road; so he needs a pony. For you cannot easily talk to hobbits that are riding, when you're on your own legs trying to trot beside them.'The hobbits were delighted to hear this, and thanked Tom many times; but he laughed, and said that they were so good at losing themselves that he would not feel happy till he had seen them safe over the borders of his land. ‘I've got things to do,' he said: 'my making and my singing, my talking and my walking, and my watching of the country. Tom can't be always near to open doors and willow-cracksburdens!'Merry, Sam, and Pippin now clothed themselves in spare garments from their packs; and they soon felt too hot, for they were obliged to put on some of the thicker and warmer things that they had brought against the oncoming of winter.'Where does that other old animal, that Fatty Lumpkin, come from?' asked Frodo.'He's mine,' said Tom. 'My four-legged friend; though I seldom ride him, and he wanders often far, free upon the hillsides. When your ponies stayed with me, they got to know my Lumpkin; and they smelt him in the night, and quickly ran to meet him. I thought he'd look for them and with his words of wisdom take all their fear away. But now, my jolly Lumpkin, old Tom's going to ride. Hey! he's coming with you, just to set you on