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Nevertheless, while Brown promises to win the ear--and funds--of Sacramento and Washington, many see him as a captive of special interests. He has had to defend the $1 million in campaign contributions he has reportedly received from the tobacco and gambling industries over the years (he stirred up more controversy when he suggested exploring the idea of opening a casino at a local naval base). Achtenberg, for her part, cannot count on a solid gay vote. Some are angry that she quit her Washington position, the highest ever held by an openly gay federal official. Indeed...
...even though he had walked the bases full with nobody out in the first inning. There was Wolcott sitting with the 6-ft. 10-in. ace of the staff, Randy Johnson. The veteran patted Wolcott on the leg as if to say, "Nice going, kid," and Wolcott grinned from ear to ear...
...accent: "After a time he had stopped noticing it at all more than a couple of times a day, and for years had given up speculating what speech-sounds she might make if, for example, he were to creep up behind her and fire a loaded revolver past her ear...
...live mouse with a human ear growing out of its back? Surely it's a freak or a fake, something out of a carnival sideshow or supermarket tabloid? No, the startling creature that showed up in newspapers and on television last week is quite real and actually serves a scientific purpose. It is the latest and most dramatic demonstration of progress in tissue engineering, a new line of research aimed at replacing body parts lost to disease, accident or, as is often the case with a missing ear, a schoolyard fight...
Upon hearing that the alarms would no longer go off, a few students spoke of the ear-piercing sound with nostalgia...