Word: bore
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...first trip to Yellowstone to study the springs. Cady knew she might find heat-loving microbes in the scalding water, but she had no reason to think she would find remains of their deceased kin. When she looked at rock samples under a microscope, however, she discovered that they bore the fossilized imprints of bacterial sheets that gave silica a place to cling as the rocks were forming. "I was flabbergasted," she says...
...balances with a spin-heavy Cheney piece, in which Cheney "acknowledged in an interview that House Republicans bore some responsibility for the 'partisan bickering and backbiting' in Washington that he criticizes in his speeches." That was very triangular...
...major American networks couldn't be bothered with Tour coverage; ABC followed Tiger Woods' admittedly rollicking win at the British Open with auto racing while NBC and FOX fiddled around with various ball-related games. CBS was locked out of British Open coverage but found a way to bore us anyway with "The Story of Golf" (a repeat, I might add), which ran from 2:30 to 5 in the afternoon. Prime Sunday advertising territory - lost to a rerun...
...improved, just rounded out a bit. The Bush camp is saying that George W. Bush is enough, and that the Cheney choice just puts a slight emphasis on the Bush part of the ticket. That emphasis may turn some people off; it will inspire others. Some it will bore...
...pretty young contestants all shared the same 5-m-wide bed on their communal-living bus. Survivor, gripping as it may currently be, seems like it should be in the dictionary under novelty. And Big Brother, with its less exotic setting and nightly schedule, may prove a Big Bore once viewers sample it. Not that you're the sort of person who would ever watch Big Brother in the first place...