Word: existing
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...stars in the universe; yes, this means that the probability of life forming on one of them can be extremely small, while the probability of life forming on at least one of them is extremely large; and yes, this implies that since we know that life can form (we exist), it probably has formed elsewhere. But while this is a reasonably convincing intuitive argument for the existence of extraterrestrial life, it is, in essence, simply a mathematical restatement of Ellie's comment in Contact--"The Universe is a pretty big place...so if it's just us, seems like...
...where sulfur, natural gas and other petroleum products mingle with the groundwater. The result is a nasty mix that is unusable to residents. Many of the town's wells are also contaminated with potentially deadly E. coli pollutants. So a commodity most Americans take for granted simply does not exist in Evansville. "My five-year-old daughter doesn't know what it's like to get water out of a faucet," says resident Helen Martin. For the past five years, 200 families in this hamlet in the northwestern part of the state have sought $750,000 from the Arkansas Economic...
...cares. More importantly, if it didn't exist, every emcee would be KRS, Rakim and Black Thought at once. Isn't there something to be said about room for improvement...
...runs into trouble. If he was to be a truly uninhibited comedian, he wouldn't even bother qualifying his statements. Like a Howard Stern or a Rush Limbaugh, he would just rant and rave, regardless of the consequences. Jackie, however, tries to find a balance that seemingly doesn't exist, between speaking freely and still trying to qualify dangerous statements (like his brazenly racist quips). For instance, he offers us the previous comment on Jewish wives and their timid husbands and elicits audience hysteria; the mood, however, turns somber when he immediately adds "But adultery is nothing to laugh over...
WITHOUT FAIL, music critics enjoy labeling and compartmentalizing new talent--in a sense, trying to create neat categories that simply don't exist. Remember Alanis Morissette's much-ballyhooed arrival on the music scene almost four years...