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...Michael J. Fox or Nancy Reagan talks about it. We put off colon-cancer checkups or mammograms, and then get them because Katie Couric reminds us to. Think about that one: the specter of our own slow, painful deaths is not itself enough for us to get a simple test. But the nice lady from the Today show tells us to do it, and suddenly we're there...
Unlike most country singers, Womack knows that ballad singing isn't an Olympian test of lung capacity. She hush-sings her way through Twenty Years and Two Husbands Ago and a delicate cover of Sonny Throckmorton's Waiting for the Sun to Shine, providing a much needed reminder that country, more than any other musical genre, still has the potential to offer instant intimacy...
...about them as objects, but sooner or later we realize that their use is inextricably intertwined with their description, and so when we want to talk about using them we do the most obvious thing: we turn their name into a verb.Whether some of these verbs will stand the test of time remains to be seen. Plow seems to have done fine, but Google the company may not be around forever (heresy, I know, but forever is a long time) and it seems unlikely, though possible, that the verb will outlast the company. The OED takes a suitably reserved stance...
...litmus test for students: would you be willing to have public the information you are posting now? Could you justify, in front of others, the information you post?” he writes...
...following the egg-donor scandal, Hwang provided MBC-TV with samples from five stem cell lines, and cells from their donors, in an effort to prove their authenticity. It's not clear where these stem cells were stored. Hwang said he and his colleagues performed their own in-house test, including DNA fingerprinting to verify the source of the stem cells. It was then that he discovered that the fingerprints did not match those printed in Science. "We learned that the stem cells were actually made in Mizmedi," he said, and therefore were not, in fact, the stem cells Hwang...