Word: absurdities
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...tosses chickens about like confetti while impishly spitting out salty one-liners like, “Bird flu gonna get you / Made it in my stable.” Rapid-fire editing and hand-held footage amplify the disorienting effects of the video’s jarring music and absurd images. “Bird Flu” is one messy tumble toward chaos, and M.I.A seems completely at home in the fray. Her demeanor—spastic and aggressive yet nonchalant—is at once totally natural and totally badass. Dancing frantically in bare feet, she giggles about...
Stifling regulations, absurd lawsuits and ambitious prosecutors are pushing companies to raise money overseas, the scolds in pinstripes warn, and unless the rules loosen up, within a decade New York City could slip behind London, Hong Kong or, yes, Dubai as a center of global finance. President George W. Bush chimed in during a Jan. 31 speech, saying that lawsuits and overregulation might drag the markets down...
...change, and missed scoring opportunities once again plagued both teams, who showed signs of fatigue after 100 minutes of play.As players indiscriminately flopped across the ice, the only player who seemed to be unfazed by the length of the game was B.C. goalie Molly Shaus, who racked up an absurd 73 saves. “It’s the best feeling in the world,” she said.The game finally came to a conclusion when Stack stung the Crimson again, this time with an assist, as she fed teammate Anna McDonald for the game-winner 14:13 into...
...Chinese scientists have spent millions of dollars and gone to extraordinary (some might say absurd) lengths to perfect a captive breeding program for the notoriously shy bears. After several decades of frustration, 2006 was a banner year. Using methods ranging from electric rectal probes and Viagra (the drug didn't work) to movies of pandas mating, China produced 34 panda cubs last year. That compares with only nine births in 2000. The program was initially spurred by a desire to save the species from extinction. But in 1975 China set aside 10 nature reserves for the bears, covering almost...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...