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...course, some people are naturally conservative; they avoid taking a position whenever possible. They just don’t want to have to go out on a limb when they don’t know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be partially junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...proved guilty, and some legal scholars opined that Burris had the bona fides even if they were issued by a character out of The Sopranos. Within hours, Senate Rules Committee chair Dianne Feinstein broke with Reid, calling for Burris to join the club. The Senate leader, out on a limb that his comrades were sawing off, soon softened his opposition. "[Bleep]ing golden," the cynic might say, borrowing from the Blagojevich idiom as allegedly captured on a federal wiretap...
Spirit's busted wheel is not the only lame limb on the now aging rovers. Opportunity's robotic arm - which carries many of its exploration tools, including its rock drill - has what amounts to an arthritic elbow. This makes it impossible for the arm to retract fully and requires the rover to toddle along with a sort of perpetual salute. Spirit itself has been reduced to driving backwards, dragging its broken wheel in the soil as it moves along...
...should be nice to Muggles. "Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump," a variant on the emperor's new clothes, isn't much more successful, though it was a relief to me to learn that the stump in question is a tree stump and not some kind of chortling severed limb...
...program director of the General Clinical Research Center at Beth Israel, where he studied mechanisms of acute renal failure. He also conducted research at Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory in Maine, focusing most recently on the cellular transport of salt in a shark model of the ascending limb of mammalian kidneys. He worked in the Desert Island lab for 40 years and served as its president for 10 years. As a research mentor in Maine, Epstein worked with high school and medical school students exploring marine physiology. Michael Amato, a freshman at the University of North Caroline, Chapel Hill, worked...