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It should be remembered , however , that when I fell , in the first instance , from the car , if I had fallen with my face turned toward the balloon , instead of turned outwardly from it as it actually was — or if , in the second place , the cord by which I was suspended [ page 14 :] had chanced to hang over the upper edge , instead of through a crevice near the bottom of the car — I say it may readily be conceived that , in either of these supposed cases , I should have been unable to accomplish even as much as I had now accomplished , and the disclosures now made would have been utterly lost to posterity . Last November ’ s Congressional elections dealt President George W Bush a sharp rebuff over his Iraq policy . While such questions sometimes play a major role in campaigns , often they are ignored or glossed over during the heat of a campaign , particularly when they involve difficult tradeoffs between conflicting values or strong constituencies . Besides , although I was evidently approaching the surface below me , it was with a speed by no means commensurate with the velocity I had at first conceived . To be sure , some bones which were thought to be human , mixed up with a quantity of odd-looking rubbish , had been lately discovered in a retired situation to the east of the city ; and some people went so far as to imagine that in this spot a foul murder had been committed , and that the sufferers were in all probability Hans Pfaall and his associates . In the meantime , looking towards the cat , who was again snugly stowed away upon my coat , I discovered , to my infinite surprise , that she had taken the opportunity of my indisposition to bring into light a litter of three little kittens . Third , we agreed that half of the revenue for the accounts would come from new worker contributions of 1.5 percent of payroll and half would come from diverting resources from the Social Security Trust Funds . Therefore , a judicious and reasonable Iran can go a long way toward achieving its long-cherished aspiration of domination of the critical waterways of the Middle East . Drawing now my body upwards , with a prodigious exertion of muscular force , I succeeded , at the very first trial , in throwing the buckle over the car , and entangling it , as I had anticipated , in the circular rim of the wicker-work . Hovering over this debate , as with all debates in Iran , stands the supreme leader , Ali Khamenei , and his relationship with these competing power centers . While Abe quickly visited China in an effort to defuse growing tensions between the two countries , a recent poll reports that only 21 % of Chinese have a favorable view of Japan , while 93 % of Japanese are concerned about China 's growing military power . Kollek assiduously protected the flowers he planted , screaming at anyone who trod on them , from distinguished journalists to Israel 's Black Panthers . To help foster informed discussion about the issues during and after the campaign , ten scholars associated with the Rappaport Institute have prepared short pieces describing some of important choices they believe the next governor will have to make . I turned from them in contempt , and , gazing upwards at the earth so lately left , and left perhaps for ever , beheld it like a huge , dull , copper shield , about two degrees in diameter , fixed immovably in the heavens overhead , and tipped on one of its edges with a crescent border of the most brilliant gold . There is a strongly held set of beliefs about America as the land of opportunity and Europe as a class-bound society . I nevertheless did not think it expedient to attempt getting on my feet immediately ; but , having tied up my arm as well as I could , I lay still for about a quarter of an hour . This is about all that I personally know of the now immortal Von Kempelen ; but I have thought that even these few details would have interest for the public . Of the top ten research universities in the world , still at least seven are American and arguably even more . Besides , if Mr. Kissam actually did come upon the discovery he says he did , at the period designated - - nearly eight years ago - - how happens it that he took no steps , on the instant , to reap the immense benefits which the merest bumpkin must have known would have resulted to him individually , if not to the world at large , from the discovery ? But the ; aeronaut , still greatly discomposed , and having apparently no further business to detain him in Rotterdam , began at this moment to make busy preparations for departure ; and , it being necessary to discharge a portion of ballast to enable him to reascend , the half dozen bags which he threw out , one after another , without taking the trouble to empty their contents , tumbled , every one of them , most unfortunately , upon the back of the burgomaster , and rolled him over and over no less than half a dozen times , in the face of every individual in Rotterdam . When I afterwards had time for reflection , I did not fail to attribute the extreme violence of the explosion , as regarded myself , to its proper cause — my situation directly above it , and in the line of its greatest power .