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Hump hreys showed a computer model of this alternate plate tectonics, which included, at one point, the continents moving apart from each other at a rate of two meters per second. He called this process "a continental sprint, not a continental drift...
...smoke continues to drift over, Putnam approaches the lane for his next bowl, staring down the white pins in the florescent light. Returning to his seat as the pins are reset again, Putnam gets on a roll, so to speak, about the historical context of our social capital problem...
Such helium-filled, heartfelt pronouncements flow frequently from Santana's lips, but Davis had no trouble catching his drift. What Santana wanted was a hit. And a hit he got. The album the two men dreamed up, Supernatural, has turned into one of the year's biggest surprises, blowing past seemingly invincible blockbusters like Limp Bizkit and even the mighty Backstreet Boys during its amazing run up the charts. Since its June debut, Supernatural has sold a cash register-popping 3 million copies while drawing an uncommonly diverse coalition of fans: grizzled 1960s hippies; university kids who prefer Dave Matthews...
...fish we are going for, whitefish and cutthroats, are loitering on the bottom. So we will wet cast and roll cast instead, with little weights on the line and flies that look like nymphs. Roll casting requires less arm movement. You swing out the line upriver and let it drift down in a natural motion. I find I'm not half bad at this, thanks wholly to Chouinard, who is as aware of the process in teaching as in everything else...
...health risks with GM, and science should investigate them," he says. "But as much as this is a health issue, it is a psychological one.... You label something 'frankenfood' and all of the sudden everyone's scared of them." Bjerklie points out that "in nature there is also genetic drift," such as when birds carrying seeds cause cross-pollenation. In fact, says Bjerklie, the commotion in Europe "is as much over economic concerns as it is about health risks" ? GM critics there have voiced concerns that the modifications give unfair advantages to large farmers who can afford the new seeds...