Word: fainted
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Without qualm or reservations, without regard for the impressionable children milling about, Section 11 will curse and deride, condemn and deplore. The goalie sucks, his teammates suck, their coach sucks, the referee sucks. The same goes for their moms. Section 11 is not for the faint of heart, and certainly not for the politically correct. Frankly, it's downright mean...
...Somewhere in the middle was the usually definitive Wall Street Journal editorial page. It damned him with faint praise by remarking on the former general's admitted unfamiliarity with details of the security situation in Jerusalem: "That the secretary should so plainly confess his ignorance is a good sign." The Journal liked the fact that Powell seems ready "to look at the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through fresh eyes." It didn't like Powell's criticism of Israel's "siege" of Palestinian territories, fretting he might go soft on terrorism, possibly "joining the predictable chorus" of Sharon critics...
...more. The mood of these astronomical party poopers is to discard planets, not to find them; the children of tomorrow shall grow up to find all planets found, all lands mapped--all mysteries revealed as mundane facts. The new worlds we now seek ring not our own, but faint and distant suns--poor substitutes for Galileo's heirs...
...about cloning?let alone the rest of us?don't fully understand its implications. Cloning, notes ethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning...
...about cloning--let alone the rest of us--don't fully understand its implications. Cloning, notes ethicist Arthur Caplan of the University of Pennsylvania, "can't make you immortal because clearly the clone is a different person. If I take twins and shoot one of them, it will be faint consolation to the dead one that the other one is still running around, even though they are genetically identical. So the road to immortality is not through cloning...