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Would you like milk or sugar with your tea? Or how about lower electricity bills? Disgusted with their utility companies' plans to hike electricity rates as much as 55% in 2007, Illinoisans are throwing their version of the Boston Tea Party, sending tea bags with their bill payments as a sign of protest. Lieutenant Governor Pat Quinn, a legendary showman who has few official duties and plenty of time to think up such stunts, says thousands of tea bags have been sent to ComEd and Ameren, the state's largest utilities, since the protest began on Sept...
...result, progress is maddeningly slow. And while he can't reveal details, Pääbo says he'll soon be announcing in a major scientific journal the sequencing of 1 million base pairs of the Neanderthal genome. And he says he has 4 million more in the bag. Rubin, meanwhile, is also poised to publish his results, but refuses to divulge specifics. "Pääbo's team has significantly more of a sequence than we do," he says. "Some of the dates will differ, but the conclusions are largely similar...
...item, they are likely to fall prey to what Wolfe calls the “rare target effect.” “Although their eyes may perceive the shape of a dangerous object, their mind is used to operating as if there is nothing suspicious in the bag,” Wolfe said. “As a result, they may see the item without reacting,” In the lab, if only two percent of the bags screened contained dangerous items, the test subjects missed the target items 40 percent of the time, according to Wolfe...
...obscure social theorists in section, or to insert an obviously faulty counterargument into an essay that has no thesis, there is a correct way to waste time, and it involves reality television. You see, with reality TV, just one mind-numbing day of sitting on the couch nursing a bag of Tostitos feels like weeks and weeks of climbing mountains, being forced to consume strange creatures, and going on oddly conceived dates with unattractive people. It’s like ten vacations in one, and, best of all, you don’t have to do any of the work...
...really do. You have so many adjustments to deal with both academically and socially, and on top of that your Ec10 book is going to cost you 156 bones. (Don’t worry, though; the COOP will buy it back at the end of the year for a bag of potato chips...