Word: pairing
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Stanley Pons has dropped out of sight, hiding his whereabouts from the press and his employers. Granted, the University of Utah chemist has been under pressure since March 1989, when he and British colleague Martin Fleischmann said they had created fusion in a jar. Skeptical scientists doubted that the pair had tamed the sun's power source -- at room temperature. The complaint was not just that they had announced their discovery at a press conference rather than in a scientific journal but also that no one else had been able to replicate the experiment...
Imagine revising Genesis. In the new version Noah stands on the gangplank to the ark, reviewing the species of the world pair by pair, deciding on a purely economic basis which creatures to save and which to consign to the deepening waters. He turns away the pests, the serpents and other species he deems useless to man or too costly to take along. If such a vision strains the imagination, consider the call by some Bush Administration officials to amend the Endangered Species Act. Their aim is to expand greatly the powers of a committee of political appointees that already...
...before I got into bed, I put on a pair of extra-thick long underwear. And some blue flannel pajamas. And a pair of thick wool socks. And a hat. And a scarf...
...financial analyst (the names in this story have been changed), had been married a few months and were watching an adult film at their New York City apartment, when Tara kiddingly suggested, "Why don't we make our own?" Two months later, after consultation with a therapist, the pair re-created their wedding night on camera. Joe wore his tuxedo, Tara her bridal gown -- at least initially...
...notes psychologist Lonnie Barbach of San Francisco, "it's not just plumbing shots of anonymous people." One Minneapolis couple combined a sleazy script with agile camerawork. "I was a door-to-door salesman, and she was the housewife," says Michael, in reality a business manager. During the taping, the pair stopped the action to move the camera around the bed, adjust the zoom lens and do retakes. Despite such antics, the experience ultimately proved moving emotionally. Viewing the tape, says Michael, "we saw how much real affection there was between us; it was there in how we touched each other...