Word: commonality
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...netting the choicest fish in the ocean as they swim to Canada. The bold move drew fire from the U.S. State Department and Alaskan fishermen, who claim they're not hogging the premier salmon, called sockeye, but are abiding by the fishing treaty by going after the more common and less valuable pink salmon. Local businesses weren't too happy with the stunt, either. They claim it will keep vacationers from the area, resulting in a loss of millions of dollars annually. But the fishermen continue to stand firm, claiming that shady U.S. fishing practices could hurt everyone if they...
...complexities of the sight-and-sound rule by imposing a "no physical contact" provision, which means that the same facilities could be used. But juvenile advocates say that breaking down the barriers would make kids prey to rape and other forms of abuse. Kids held for truancy, the most common reason for juvenile arrest, would be morsels for the older guys. "Children commit suicide eight times as often in jails as they do in juvenile-detention facilities," says Mark Soler, head of the Washington-based Youth Law Center...
...probably did not make love. In a tour de force experiment that involved extracting a microscopic strand of ancient DNA from the arm bone of a Neanderthal skeleton, a team led by Dr. Svante Paabo of the University of Munich showed that the two species have almost nothing in common, genetically speaking...
...outraged at the lack of common sense in the cancellation of this trip and the tardiness of the cancellation itself. Boldfaced "Measles Alert" signs had been posted on every wall of the campus for a week. All students were instructed either to receive shots or to show proof of immunization. This involved standing on an interminably long line in Loker Commons. We all received a stamp from UHS, showing that we had been immunized at some point in our life, and presumably, this ended the measles scare for most of the campus...
Fortunately, Capra, over at Columbia, found in Stewart "the uncommon common man": as a lion tamer of the wild Vanderhof clan in You Can't Take It with You and as Jefferson Smith, patron saint of patriotic lost causes, nurser of noble grudges, in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington. David O. Selznick saw Stewart as a worthy partner for Carole Lombard in the intelligent soaper Made for Each Other. Somebody at Universal made him the unlikely western hero of Destry Rides Again, opposite an amused Marlene Dietrich. These moguls may have undervalued Stewart as an appealing young actor who wouldn...