Word: adeptly
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...JACQUET, 81, innovative tenor saxophonist and bandleader; of a heart attack; in New York City. At 19, playing with Lionel Hampton's band, he bleated out an 80-sec. solo on Flying Home that became legendary. He was a master of the style known as screeching and was equally adept at slow ballads. In addition to playing with most of the jazz giants of his era, he was invited by President Bill Clinton to perform a duet on the White House lawn at his first Inauguration...
...likely to vanish.'" But the threat is much broader than that. In Australia, 44% of distinct mammalian groups have disappeared during the last 23 million years. Only a tiny fraction of that is man's fault: cosmic and natural forces (meteorites, volcanic eruptions, climatic changes) are adept at causing extinctions on their own. Nonetheless, Archer argues, the planet is on the cusp of another great extinction event - "and it's one we're precipitating . . . it's the first time in the history of the earth, as far as we know, that one species has caused a mass extinction...
...down, his acting successor will be Deputy Director of Intelligence John McLaughlin, a career analyst. It is a cliche to call McLaughlin unassuming and modest; it is more telling to describe him as deeply analytical and alert to the ambiguities of his trade. An amateur magician, he is especially adept at sleight of hand, a skill that helped win him the nickname "Merlin...
There will, of course, always be those Renaissance men and women who can confidently roam through the various spheres of knowledge with cool-as-a-cucumber confidence. But these types, irritatingly adept as they are, will be taking a wide range of classes in any case. If everyone is going to continue to know a little of everything, and four science classes for all undergraduates is going to become a reality, there needs to be more thought on the packaging and presentation of said material. There’s a very real fear factor inherent for many in traversing...
...fact that the Abu Ghraib coincided with the 50th anniversary of the battle of Dien Bien Phu, in which Vietnamese guerrillas routed the French colonial army and took its surrender. Although Cold War considerations prompted the U.S. to get involved, in the end they proved no more adept than the French - or the Chinese hundreds of years earlier - had been in bending Vietnam to foreign will...