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...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...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E., however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable...
...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...
Blanchett: [Laughs] Yes, "He's very mature for his age." And that's where it starts to become quite absurd and ridiculous...