21.   The prime piece of real estate went to a federal courthouse, a building that will not provide any tax revenue.

22.   The people I work with are reasonable, by and large, and were as mystified as I was about where the piece had gone.

23.   Then, the pieces go to the lacquering room, where masked workers give them a matte finish and polish them again.

24.   Three hundred pieces of shrapnel went into his back.

25.   Vintage pieces go for thousands of dollars.

26.   When the oil is hot enough, it sizzles instantly when a piece of meat goes in.

27.   Some are shattered once and then pasted together to make sure the pieces go flying apart just right.