Word: cooler
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...offer herewith a list of safe topics, any of which you may introduce at water cooler or dinner party whenever the conversation veers dangerously toward Bush, Gore, and dimples...
Biotechnology is touted as a saving grace of our weird and wired world because it uses "nature" to further human ends. We can grow more "productive" corn, or "cooler" tobacco that glows in the dark. Yet our faith in technological progress should not stop us from relentlessly challenging our motivations and our ends. What are the ends of more "productive" corn and "cooler" tobacco? Are the means we're implementing the most effective ones? And, lest we forget, is the biotechnological innovation a good technology, or is it insufficient? Not only are GM organisms ethically and environmentally questionable, they...
...just limited to subject-verb mangling. More exciting still was his style. Occasionally he walked the stage hunched like a gunfighter, arms poised to pull his pistols. To punctuate a point, he'd sometimes squat and bow his arms as if he were trying to lift a water cooler. Or he'd poke the air like a man torturing an elevator button. And, boy, could he paint a wicked rhetorical picture. A particular favorite popped up at an energy-policy speech in Saginaw, Mich. Like most of his speeches important enough for a TelePrompTer, his emphasis track was unhooked from...
MORE STEROID RAGE Make the use of steroids and erythropoietin mandatory and enforce it! Any athlete who tests negative for nandrolone or who has a testosterone/epitestosterone ratio of under 6 to 1 can't compete. It's that simple. Imagine players dumping a big cooler of human growth hormone on their coach after a victory. That's exciting...
...Besieged voters complain not just about the ads' volume but about their negativity as well. In a country where trashing politicians is a staple of late-night comedy and water-cooler banter, the only people who are not supposed to disparage politicians are their opponents. There seems to be little distinction between underhanded smears and hard, defensible attacks, only a growing consensus that making the basic argument of a campaign - that I am the right choice and my opponent the wrong one - is somehow dirty pool...