Word: evening
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Even so, by the age of five the classical holiday commercials depicting Santa crawling down a chimney with a sack full of toys began to grate on my developing rationality. I enumerated a number of problems with the "Santa Hypothesis" ordered by degree of disquietude created: 1) The Logistical Problem: Too many houses existed to visit them all in one night. Counter-argument: Santa might have been able to slowdown or stop time. 2) The Production Problem: The availability of raw materials at the North Pole seemed fairly limited. Also, Santa Inc. did not seem like a viable business, what...
...draft made memorable by the selection of Beth Zotter '00 by the New York Power in the fourth round on Sunday became even more momentous when the Washington Freedom selected 2000 Crimson volunteer assistant coach Carrie Moore in the 14th round with the 107th overall pick...
...next Christmas "Santa" gave my sister a toy that I remembered seeing before in our house. Either Santa was having an economically trying year and had helped himself to some of our older toys, or my parents had misled me all along. Learning the truth was a disappointment, but even more disturbing was the belittlement and the manipulation that previous "evidences" implied. The world had connived to pull one over on me, and that stung more than the cold transferal of my old toys to my sister. I vowed not to be bamboozled again...
...common pest? U.S. exports to Asia have suffered because of fear that Cry9C could cause food allergies. The chance that this protein could cause of food allergy is miniscule; its structure differs from known allergens and there have been no reported cases of an allergic reaction. Its presence might even be healthy: farmers need to use less pesticide if the plant provides its own protection. You may have already eaten some Cry9C in your corn flakes. The 1998 and 1999 crops were mixed with non-modified corn and released into the food supply...
...Democratic lawyers - unaffiliated with a Gore camp fearful of the p.r. ironies of a throw-out-the-vote remedy - had never been able to prove what the veep claimed a week ago: That Democrats "were denied an opportunity to come in, denied a chance to even look at the applications and those applications were thrown...