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...When I opened the box, it was like the ground had trasmitted an electrical shock to the boys' feet. They jumped up and crowded around. I shoved them away and told them that seniors would get the chance to pick first, followed by juniors, sophomores, and freshmen last. The chavos grumbled, but it seemed the only fair way to hand them out. We called the seniors to the box first and the boys stepped up and picked out a uniform. There were two sets of uniforms, for home and away games, and the numbers needed to match. The home uniforms...
...five points, and his handling of Iraq edged up to 34%, a four-point improvement. Congress fared worse, with only 30% approving of its performance. Asked how they would vote if elections for Congress were held today, 51% of the registered voters among the respondents said they'd pick a Democrat, while 40% would vote Republican. The numbers include voters who say they lean toward those parties...
...pathological, so they find anything that remotely resembles pathology and apply it to the poor hobbit." Henry Gee, a senior editor at Nature who was responsible for overseeing the publication of the original Flores paper, concedes that the PNAS paper is "very interesting" but says the authors "cherry-pick the evidence [they] like." Ultimately, he says, "I do not think that the new work dents the contention that Homo floresiensis is a new species of human." (See TIME's photo-essay "Happy 200th Darwin...
...totally get it. As a kid, my heart pumped in anticipation of a classmate's birthday and the inevitable arrival of that wide, low pink box. I'd pick away at the frosted top, then collect the remaining pure cake in both hands, eating out of my palms like a crazed bird on a sugar high. And when no one was looking, I'd shove the paper in my mouth and chew it like cupcake gum. Even now I like an occasional chai latte--flavored Sprinkles cupcake, just as I appreciate a great burger or mac and cheese. The problem...
...desperate have returned to these parts, which are still strewed with unexploded bombs, many of them from antipersonnel cluster munitions. "There are thousands of these out there," says a Lebanese military intelligence officer in Tibnine as he holds up a defused cluster bomb. "If you go out to pick tobacco right now, you've got a good chance of dying...