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...hooligan, "devious master of our bodies," wreaker of joy and havoc: "Love makes the cuckoo heave its foster-siblings/Out of the nest, to spatter on the ground." Pleasure is the other side of loss. In "American Boy" Gunn writes, "Expertly you know how to maintain me/At the exact degree/of hunger without starving. We produce/ What warmth...
...unofficial site in question, it takes quite a while for the reader to realize that not all is what it appears to be. In the non-Internet world, on the other hand, if someone wanted to make fun of, say, TIME magazine, they could do everything but use the exact, copyrighted name, which would provide a more obvious indication of a parody...
Over the last decade, Harvard has put billions of dollars in venture capital. While money managers for the Harvard Management Company (HMC), the company that invests the endowment, refuses to reveal the exact amount in venture capital, they say their goal is to have 15 percent of the endowment in private equity, the category that is in large part defined by venture capital...
...Eighty-three innocent people died, to be exact. Instead of Jackson being carted off to jail and being dishonorably discharged, however, he is revered as a hero...
...given set of forces and substances will yield the same result when brought together under the same conditions. Ideally, we test for replication with time-honored procedures that scientists call controlled experiments--artificially simplified situations manipulated by human observers to guarantee (within the best of our ability) an exact repetition of all timings, forces and substances. If we achieve the same result in each of several replications, we then gain confidence that we may be witnessing a predictable generality based upon a law of nature. This search for replicates underlies the efforts--and partial successes--of scientists to synthesize living...