Word: snags
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...Europe's most original architects, Santiago Calatrava, a Spanish-born engineer whose buildings and bridges are high-wire acts of structural and aesthetic daring. His centerpiece for the museum, in Milwaukee, Wis., is a tall sunscreen with wings that open and close. But tests on building material hit a snag, pushing back the screen's official May debut to Oct. 14. It's a thing of beauty, but will...
President Bush's decision to fund work on some 60-odd existing colonies of human stem cells, and only those colonies, hit a serious snag last week with the revelation that virtually all stem cells are cultivated using embryonic mouse tissue. The mouse cells provide the human ones with nutrients and growth factors crucial to their survival and proliferation. The problem: under FDA rules, mouse-fed stem cells given to treat human patients would be considered a "xenotransplant," or tissue from another species. Although hundreds of patients have received liver and fetal cells from pigs without any sign of foreign...
...best minds in comedy do their best work in the two or three years after college," Lewis said. "We want to snag him before he gets to L.A. and starts doing things with his own money...
...wait. The Oscars are on ABC this year, and the XFL was NBC's attempt to cut into the popularity of the NFL after it failed to snag the television rights. Monday Night Football is on ABC. It all makes sense...
...chosen alternative is Big Apple, produced by David Milch, creator of that other seminal '90s drama, NYPD Blue. The premise: the FBI's New York City office is investigating the Russian mob (and perhaps persons much higher) when it runs into a snag--dogged N.Y.P.D. cop Mike Mooney (Ed O'Neill, who almost makes you forget he's Al Bundy and the 1-800-COLLECT guy). When Mooney, looking into a stripper's murder, steps on the FBI's case, the bureau folds him and his partner into its team. But the two cops find themselves steered wrong...