Word: cuttingly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Laboring to find the strike zone, McCreery fell behind 3-0 to tri-captain Erik Binkowski before walking him to let up a run and cut the lead...
...were organized to move crowds to the scene. It was the Vicksburg Evening News that reported how Luther Holbert and his wife were burned to death by a crowd in Doddsville, Miss., in 1904. The couple were tortured with corkscrews that pulled out hunks of flesh. Their fingers were cut off, one by one, and distributed among the crowd as souvenirs. Mutilated flesh was racism's ultimate trophy...
...next 100 years--or probably even in the next billion years. Nevertheless, a sufficiently advanced civilization might be able to master the intricacies of creating baby universes--maybe even selling kits to do it in science fairs. Unfortunately, the new space-time such a universe inhabits will be forever cut off from our cosmos by the black-hole bottleneck (which destroys everything that passes through it), and thus will be just as undetectable as those in quantum theory's many-worlds interpretation...
...course, there will be teething troubles--literally. Or somebody might have forgotten to cut out the songbird's voice genes, so the first struth chirps like a sparrow. Or maybe the brain development did not quite hang together and the creature is born incapable of normal movement. As this suggests, the first such experiment will almost certainly produce a bit of a Frankenstein's monster, and the whole idea may well therefore be cruel and unethical, in which case, let us hope it never happens. But that is not the same as saying it will be impossible...
...less than 30 sec., shaking the ground for perhaps 100 miles and triggering an earthquake with a magnitude of 6.7. Bridges will buckle. Apartment buildings will pancake. The dorms at the University of California, Berkeley, will roll like barrels on a wave. Water, power and transportation lines will be cut. The subway that runs under the bay could be a death trap. By the time the dust settles, more than 100,000 people will be homeless. Economic losses will total at least $35 billion. The human cost will be immeasurable...