Word: wimps
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Dreaming big and offering the moon was the style of L.B.J.; he's your kinda guy. B brands you an ineffective wonk; C says you're an unambitious, pass-the-buck wimp...
...side by side, and there's no question whom you'd want backing you up in a barroom brawl. Fox is a six-five bruiser who oozes physical self-confidence; Labastida at five-ten comes across as something of a wimp - not least because he's perceived as clinging to the skirt of his powerful and intelligent wife, Maria Teresa, who has drawn comparisons with Hillary Clinton. When Fox some weeks ago punned on Labastida's name, dubbing him "La vestida" (meaning "the dressed woman" or "the skirt"), he started a machismo bidding war that made the campaign look like...
...extra gravity out there, suggesting that the stars and nebulae we can see constitute only 1% to 10% of the matter in the universe. The rest is invisible; it emits no light. Nobody yet knows what this dark matter is. One possibility is that it's made of WIMP--weakly interacting massive particles. Until the dark matter is identified and tallied, predicting the future of the universe on the basis of what we can see will be as uncertain as trying to predict an election by polling a few golfers down at the country club...
Steven Wise assesses the scene with a professional eye. He concedes that Marbury is a wimp. He praises Alice for her social graces. And he calculates that for the moment, Christopher and Siena, dervishing through the terrible twos, are less articulate, less mentally developed, than a reasonably accomplished chimpanzee or bonobo (pygmy chimp), each of whom would easily outdistance the twins in communication skills, memory and complex consciousness of the world around them. So: Should the chimps, who possess better minds, have some of the legal protections that the twins, by birth, enjoy...
...Whackin' Yakin' Punchin' Pals: The punching bag that talks trash: "Come here, wimp...