Word: bumps
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...just finished admonishing her husband not to fall for the bump-and- rob ploy when the yellow Ryder truck rammed them twice from behind. Keep driving, she told him. But none of it did any good. Ever since Hurricane Andrew lumbered through the area last year and ripped all the lightposts from the Dolphin Expressway, the section of road where the Rakebrands found themselves at 12:30 a.m. has been tar black at night. And perhaps it was this inky cover that encouraged a frustrated teenager to pull out a sawed-off rifle and blast a .30-cal. slug through...
McNally was then living with Edward Albee, who reputedly based the description of the imaginary son in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf on him. In 1965, two years after the couple had broken up, McNally saw his own first full-length play, And Things That Go Bump in the Night, go kerflop on Broadway. He still smarts from the experience. On opening night, just before curtain time, he spotted playwright Jean Kerr and her critic husband Walter. "She said, 'Well, let's go see what his boyfriend has written.' The critics weren't reviewing a play...
...which they lock the brakes, step on the gas, and send the car spinning in circles. Some do it in front of police cars, in the hopes of inspiring a chase. One night last November, three kids stole a new Honda, drove across a side street, hit a bump in the road, took off, sheared a power pole in half, took another pole out and brought the electric lines down on top of them, and all three burned to death. "When you try to pry these kids out of these cars and see people get run over by them," asks...
...more competitive it is the better," Dieterich says. "I think it's a good serious athletic outlet. People want it to be a bump-and-grind race...
...inbreeding, male pilot whales have found a reproductive strategy that better suits their oceangoing life-style. An analysis of the DNA of whale families, called pods, published in the journal Science, suggests that these young males wait until their pod collides with another, then mate with females they bump into. Afterward, though, they return to their original pod to protect the offspring of female relatives. While their return does little to assure the survival of the fathers' genes, it improves the odds for the closely related genetic material carried by other members of their...