Word: attestations
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Posner argues that his background as a lawyer and an economist need not disqualify him from opining on the “strangelet” question. Fifty pages of footnotes attest to the fact that Posner is no scientific dilettante. But is he an alarmist...
...imposed a rule: she and her friends could recount their entire bad day without comment from me but only after I had heard three good things that had happened to each of them. Some days the best I heard was, "Well, lunch didn't suck." But I can attest to the long-term effects. For the next three years, our ride home was far more pleasant. And when my now 21-year-old daughter calls to talk about things going wrong, she always brightens her mood by relating something good. Happiness is a habit best learned early...
...some other more controversial hypotheses mentioned recently on campus. Ice cream, for instance, is healthy, containing absolutely no fat or sugar. Eating ice cream in January or February is the only surefire way to vaccinate against frostbite—and who wants to get frostbite? And as many can attest, watching objects of desire dine on the mouth-melting treat—cone or cup—can offer indispensable insight into…well…let’s just say, fro-yo’s not the same. So hurry out, show the blizzard who?...
...air—or, perhaps to some, a mere drop of oil. Flattened and charred, its thousands of buildings and homes wasted from the sky and from the ground, its districts and quarters heaped together like the piles of dead bodies that welcome visitors to its borders, proudly attest to America’s vision for Iraq...
...just assume somewhere in my life some knucklehead has looked at me and my brown self and said that they have given me less or denied me an opportunity. But the bottom line is, and my wife will attest to this, I am so insensitive I probably didn't notice...