Word: containers
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...bull. "His music is about being human," says West's obviously biased mother Donda, who recently retired from her post as chair of the English department at Chicago State University. "It's like Walt Whitman. 'Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself. I am large, I contain multitudes.'" West's old boss, Damon Dash, puts it a little differently: "He combines the superficialness that the urban demographic needs with conscious rhymes for the kids with backpacks. It's brilliant business...
...must include the heads of state of some democratic nations who steadfastly believe that massive wars are necessary to solve the terrorist problem. Nearly 90% of the people of some European countries were against their leaders' war plans. It is therefore an even greater challenge for mankind to contain that handful of hapless, disruptive individuals. Most kids in Leeds or Baghdad deplore terrorism and oil wars equally. Kerstin Laurell Rome
...discovery of the Sir2 family came about after researchers realized that even organisms that did not contain the original Sir2 gene could have their lifespans extended by calorie restrictions, Sinclair explained. “These other genes take over,” he said...
...chance mutations and natural selection. The dean of that school of thought is Lehigh University biologist and Discovery Institute senior fellow Michael Behe, author of the 1996 book Darwin's Black Box, a seminal work on intelligent design. Behe's main argument points to the fact that living organisms contain such ingenious structures as the eye and systems like the mechanism for clotting blood, which involves at least 20 interacting proteins. He calls such phenomena "irreducibly complex" because removing or altering any part invalidates the whole. Behe claims they could not have arisen through the gradual fits and starts...
...exhibition is timed to coincide with two of the busiest months for the museums, August and October. To contain the large crowds—3,000 visitors per week are expected—the Sackler plans to cap the number of people in the exhibit at any one time...