Word: brashly
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...time Watson arrived in Cambridge in the fall of 1951, the brash and brilliant 23-year-old was obsessed with DNA. He had originally set out to become a naturalist (since childhood, he had had an interest in birds), but during his third year at the University of Chicago, Watson read a book titled What Is Life?, by Erwin Schrodinger, a founder of quantum physics. Stepping boldly outside his field of expertise, Schrodinger argued that one of life's essential features is the storage and transmission of information--that is, a genetic code that passes from parent to child...
When a musician declares onstage at the House of Blues that “I want everything I do to be unprecedented,” it tempting to swiftly dismiss him as another brash, wishful rock star...
...brash blond rapper Eve is at work on a clothing line called FETISH, due later this year...
...ever has been, life on the Red Planet. This spring three spacecraft are scheduled to take off for Mars. But in the greatest challenge to the primacy of the U.S. space program since Sputnik, the honor of confirming life on Mars is not expected to fall to some brash NASA spacecraft, but to a quirky British-built pod assembled by a shaggy-haired English egghead. The British space program hasn't had a leading role since James Bond went into orbit in Moonraker. But in June a small, unmanned pod named Beagle 2 (after Charles Darwin's famous ship...
...wonder if House Democrats will someday regret that they chose Nancy Pelosi instead of brash, young Harold Ford Jr., to lead them for the remainder of George W. Bush's first term. Unlike Pelosi, a savvy but utterly predictable liberal whom Republicans will delight in caricaturing as a "San Francisco Democrat," Ford would have been, in his own words, "hard to put in a box." Republicans would have had difficulty pigeonholing a black, 32-year-old, three-term Congressman who voted against Bush's tax cuts but in favor of such conservative perennials as the prayer-in-school and anti...