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That, as seems to be said more and more these days, was then. I believe that I am now the only wood-stove bore still active on my mile of dirt road. My neighbors have concluded that full-time wood heating is dirty, dangerous (chain saws are worse tempered than alligators), economically foolish, a champion time waster and brutishly hard work. In this they are correct...
...universe -- even to a spot billions of light-years away. The name wormhole comes about by analogy: imagine a fly on an apple. The only way the fly can reach the apple's other side is the long way, over the fruit's surface. But a worm could bore a tunnel through the apple, shortening the trip considerably. A wormhole in space is the same sort of tunnel; it is a shortcut from one part of the universe to another that reduces the travel time to just about zero...
After three steady years at Harvard, the cancer returned in the summer before his senior year. Yet Tom's single-minded quest to lead an uncompromised life bore on. Despite continual pain and debilitating chemotherapy every other weekend, Tom gained a second remission and stayed in school, taking two classes in the fall and a full courseload in the spring and participating in intramural sports. He earned his degree at Harvard Summer School, finishing his last exam on August 19. The next day, while on vacation in Colorado, he relapsed one final time...
...personalities of the candidates, not on the intellectual strengths of the viewpoints they represented. "Leadership" and "judgement" were bandied about, much was made of whether the candidates were "nice" or "interesting" people, "people like us." But it really doesn't matter if a President is a bore, or if he sleeps around, or if his children all like him. The President is not our friend. He is both our leader and our servant, and the only thing that matters is his effectiveness in the public interest...
...famous apercu, author Mary McCarthy charged that everything written by playwright-memoirist Lillian Hellman was a lie, "including 'and' and 'the.' " Much the same, Seagrave argues, could be said of Ferdinand Marcos, who blithely concocted a past for his official biographies that bore scant relationship to the truth. Ferdinand claims to be the first son of Mariano Marcos, a provincial teacher and sometime member of Congress. According to Seagrave, there is strong circumstantial evidence -- including his subject's distinctively sinoid features -- that the real father was Judge Ferdinand Chua, scion of a wealthy, politically powerful Chinese clan who came...