Word: beame
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...children. But his definition of wedlock has been elastic enough to permit numerous girlfriends and affairs. He has been known to shoot indoors--guns, not just pictures. There have been various run-ins with the law. And over the years, he's been the best of friends with Jim Beam and Jack Daniel's. He's also been one of the most original artists of your lifetime...
...reached this conclusion after watching the foreign-policy portion of her disastrous Sept. 25 interview with CBS anchor Katie Couric. A number of commentators, including the Atlantic's James Fallows and Slate's Christopher Beam, have echoed Beam's assessment that Palin resembled a "high schooler trying to BS her way through a book report," which is an insult to both high schoolers and BS. Palin's answers were hesitant, convoluted and, at times - like when she appeared to suggest that Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin might be preparing a one-man airborne invasion of Alaska - downright loony...
...lead a nocturnal tour along the outskirts of the reserve. The forest throbs with invisible life. What we can't see, we can hear: tree frogs mating, insects whirring, a rustling through the branches. Our flashlights pierce the canopy, but just barely, before a thicket of leaves absorbs the beam. After hundreds of years of human exploration on this island, there are still countless species that have yet to be described - and that may be lost to extinction before we ever discover them. Our knowledge of this planet's incalculable richness is barely more complete than a flashlight's illumination...
Physicists across the globe rejoiced earlier this month at the announcement that the Large Hadron Collider—the gargantuan accelerator of sub-atomic particles meant to signal the dawning of a new age in high-energy physics—had successfully passed a beam of protons through its 17-mile tunnel...
...weight of scientific evidence was overwhelmingly against the men, so the lawsuit didn't go ahead, and at 4:30 a.m. E.T. that day, the start-up of the LHC did. A beam of protons was sent whirling around a ring-shaped tunnel some 300 ft. underground and nearly 17 miles around, making the circuit in approximately 1/10,000 of a second...