Word: botheration
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...need?" she said then. "If it breaks, because we can't buy replacement parts from the (nearby) U.S., it costs us three times as much as it should for us to fix it. Our philosophy is not to produce vaccines purely for profit, but still, why would we bother with biological weapons when there is so much more revenue in selling vaccines to companies like Smith-Kline...
Then, the second novice eights took to the course. Controversy soon ensued as the BU coxswain led the Terriers through the racing arch along with Radcliffe and Northeastern, causing the latter two boats to crash oars. The incident didn’t seem to bother the Black and White, which won the race by nearly five seconds, but Northeastern, which finished second, filed a protest. Ultimately, the officials refused to force a re-row and upheld the results...
...there is no undergraduate Pi Eta group, the society lingered on as little more than a landlord for a national fraternity. This status continued to bother the Pi Etas, who saw no reason to continue their end of the 30-year deal. It seemed like the best choice was to give up, and against the wishes of Sigma Chi, the house was placed on the market in January...
...less deep-fried album is served up by Cee-lo (Thomas Callaway), a member of the pioneering Atlanta rap quartet Goodie MOb. Cee-lo doesn't bother with Southern totems on his superb solo debut, Cee-lo Green and His Perfect Imperfections. He lets his individuality, not his geography, do the talking. On Big Ole Words (Damn) Cee-lo rhymes, "I have millenniums of material and rivers of rhythm/An entire ocean of emotion that's enlightened to swim in." Cee-lo sounds a lot like Al Green, and so do his songs, full of complicated themes, big grooves and deep...
Insisting that patients be given the unvarnished truth about clinical trials might scare many away. But that doesn't bother Alan Milstein, an attorney who has represented Jesse Gelsinger's family, as well as many of the participants in McGee's study. "The biggest myth out there," Milstein says, "is that every one of these studies is essential to the advancement of medicine. That's just nonsense. Most have to do with the advancement of the researcher himself." If it were just a lawyer talking, that sentiment might be easy to dismiss. But Marcia Angell expresses a similar criticism...