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...using money orders? Then I was inspired by a phrase--"faceless bureaucracy." I realized that I could get rid of 5221 through 5225 by using them to pay bills to institutions so large that even the presence of thoroughly revolting angels would go unnoticed. Check No. 5221 went to Con Edison for my electric bill. The angels wafted toward one of my many telephone companies...
...sooner had the checks been mailed than I began to have second thoughts. I could see a bartender whose wife worked at Con Edison glance at the name on my credit card and say, before the entire Friday-night crowd at the bar, "I wonder why you didn't bring your pussycats with you tonight...
...kids won't talk to him and his wife cuts him off in mid-conversation with a curt "I'm online here." Andre Braugher (NBC's "Homicide") is serial felon recently freed from the pen, still wearing his prison-issued shoes. And Maria Bello (NBC's "ER") is a con woman who's willing to exchange oral sex for an automobile paint job (she's the one giving out the former...
...want to use his real name, and borrowed mine for the evening as a sort of private gag, a dumb, spur-of-the-moment stunt. 2) He makes a habit of this (how else explain what he knows about me?) - he's a sick and mischievous character, a con artist with a personality disorder. Get out the bug spray...
...upshot: despite studies pro and con--and countless save-the-monarch protests acted out by children dressed in butterfly costumes--a conclusive answer to this question has yet to come. Losey himself is not yet convinced that Bt corn poses a grave danger to North America's monarch-butterfly population, but he does think the issue deserves attention. And others agree. "I'm not anti biotechnology per se," says biologist Rebecca Goldberg, a senior scientist with the Environmental Defense Fund, "but I would like to have a tougher regulatory regime. These crops should be subject to more careful screening before...