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...Harvard’s director of community relations Kevin A. McCluskey ’76 said in an interview that the connection between Harvard’s excavation and the influx of rats was tenuous, and that the University employs a “very aggressive and thorough pre-construction program” that anticipated rodent displacement from the work site. He also pointed out that an explanation for the rat influx might be the failure of community members to dispose of trash properly in rat-proof garbage bins...
...landscape, where bison and elk find warm patches of open ground to browse. We who live here, it has been said, do so at the mercy of geology. In much of the West, with its long seismic faults and Yellowstone-centered hot spots, it is for humans a sublimely tenuous coexistence with the earth's fickle tectonic temperaments...
...pace of the one-liners in Wishful Drinking is a little relentless, but it's as valid a way as any of depicting the floodlit, perspectiveless world of fame where Fisher has spent her life. It probably didn't strengthen Fisher's tenuous connection to consensus reality when at 19 she became a pop-culture icon as Princess Leia in Star Wars. Fisher says that she hated Leia's Cinnabon hair ("Give me a hairstyle that further widens my already wide face!") and that George Lucas wouldn't let her wear a bra; instead, he made her tape down...
...supply of long-range missiles. Indeed, the two countries with missiles capable of reaching the United States—Russia and China—have cut their supplies by almost 72 percent since the Cold War’s end. The case for missile defense systems was tenuous even during America’s long struggle with the Soviet Union; today, it’s indefensible...
...would clash with his gut-level identification with the gop. Washington veterans agree that McCain's conservative ideas for tax cuts and health-care reform wouldn't stand a chance in a Democratic Congress. But he might enlist enough swing-district Democrats - whose hold on their seats is tenuous - to join congressional Republicans in a grand compromise between the spenders on Capitol Hill and the tax cutters in the White House...