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We turned this magnificent bird into a truck for hauling goods and people to a tinkertoy we call the international space station, itself created in a fit of post – Cold War internationalist absentmindedness as a place where people of differing nationality can sing “Kumbaya” while weightless.
Antiwar.com Blog 2009
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We turned this magnificent bird into a truck for hauling goods and people to a tinkertoy we call the international space station, itself created in a fit of post – Cold War internationalist absentmindedness as a place where people of differing nationality can sing “Kumbaya” while weightless.
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“Look, dad!” he says, brandishing a tinkertoy creation.
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Today, I stumbled Lucy over to the local Kiddie Playspace FluCatcher AdventureZone, and even though there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING INTERESTING in there (not even books or games!) we did find an odd plastic tinkertoy-esque bin and started making letters.
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Today, I stumbled Lucy over to the local Kiddie Playspace FluCatcher AdventureZone, and even though there was ABSOLUTELY NOTHING INTERESTING in there (not even books or games!) we did find an odd plastic tinkertoy-esque bin and started making letters.
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You can quickly make all the cuts you need, so you'll have a set of tinkertoy parts.
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You can quickly make all the cuts you need, so you'll have a set of tinkertoy parts.
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One would think that this concept would be one that even the tinkertoy conservatives of NRO could grasp, let alone the La-Z-Boy Liberals and towering ivory knob polishers of the New Republic.
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I definitely am comparing two kinds of models here, a scientifically based model, and tinkertoy IPCC models.
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There was a tinkertoy space station in very low Earth orbit, not even half way to Von Braun's celebrated two-hour orbit.
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