Word: silent
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...There's a kind of calmness, a determination to go on behaving as he always has, without fuss, feathers or moral fervor. He plays what amounts to a classic America hero, but without once acknowledging the long line of such figures - in movie history his antecedents date back to silent pictures - that inform his character. No Country for Old Men, in the violence of the behavior it portrays, in the starkness of the moral conflicts it examines, has the potential to veer toward Tarentino-like hysteria. But the Coens are wintry and dead calm ironists, and their movie is finally...
...will hopefully follow in 2008. “The idea is to be able to model the immune system and then test some vaccines that the Australians have underway to see if they can actually protect in other models,” Starnbach says. Dubbed the “Silent Killer,” chlamydia often has no visible symptoms, but can cause serious reproductive problems in women. Starnbach believes the vaccine, once developed, would be most effective if administered to girls before they become sexually active. One Harvard student tried to find connections between his homeland and the recent...
Given her success in the male-dominated world of publishing, Black is surprisingly silent in her book on the subject of discrimination. It never affected her "in any way that was life-threatening," she tells TIME. "Because I have a strong and forceful personality, I could either see it coming or do a sidestep so it didn't have to happen...
...This is why many prospective owners turn to experts like Price, whose company buys up young horses and puts them through their paces before deeming them fit for market. Four years ago, Price brought in from Australia Hong Kong's most famous steed: Silent Witness, who won 17 races and racked up $8 million in winnings - and who would have kept on earning after his retirement earlier this year through stud fees, if only he hadn't been gelded. Unfortunately, Silent Witness's trainers didn't see much value in his bloodline at the outset of his racing career...
...Court struck it down in 2000 on the grounds that it gave a state unconstitutional power in foreign affairs. Councillor Marjorie C. Decker, who introduced the resolution, said she hoped the Cambridge’s support would influence other cities to take a stand. “To be silent feels really wrong,” she said...