Word: actually
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...REAL DRAG Everyone's arteries begin to harden with age, but the pace is significantly hastened if you breathe secondhand smoke. Moreover, among actual smokers, the arterial damage may be irreversible--even after quitting...
...Court, probably without success, and then, as the execution date approached, would have writs brought arguing that he's too insane to be executed. "We want people to know what is happening to them and why it's happening, and not have any illusions about it," says Babcock. "So actual crazy people can't be executed." Kaczynski, Babcock believes, will have a new hobby once this trial is over. "Being in jail and running his case is what he's going to do for the next 30 years...
Morrison has argued for years that stories and storytelling convey information, necessary information, available nowhere else. She made this case again in her Nobel Prize address: "The vitality of language lies in its ability to limn the actual, imagined and possible lives of its speakers, readers, writers. Although its poise is sometimes in displacing experience, it is not a substitute for it. It arcs toward the place where meaning may lie." To read Morrison as an allegorist or a sloganeer is to overlook completely the power...
...vast majority of those who drop in during the weekend seem a sophisticated and relatively prosperous crowd. But, Fernie said that his actual goal is to cater to both the tea aficionado and the first-timer, making the place accessible to those who otherwise would have thought of tea as "snooty" and "Victorian...
...upon Melvin, and he doesn't quite know what to do with it. When Simon is beat up in his apartment and Melvin winds up caring for his dog (the very one he tried to dump earlier), Melvin develops an attachment to the animal that sets the stage for actual interaction with humans. Similarly, he becomes so dependent on the daily routine of Carol's service that, when she takes time off to care for her asthmatic son, he is virtually forced to involve himself in her life and set things right again. In the process, he gets un-Scrooged...