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...eventually did see one meteor, but it was extremely faint and short-lived. We're told that this is the way most meteors appear, especially when there's so much light pollution. So was it worth it? Honestly, we're too tired to tell. Now we just want to sleep...

Author: By Michelle L. Quach, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: OMG! A Meteor Shower! | 11/17/2009 | See Source »

...broader statement then “they end”) that much more moving in potency. It serves to note, additionally, that Mitchell maintains some semblance of rhyme in his translations, as strong as “how” and “Apollo” or as faint as “achieved” and “god.” Nevertheless, these pique our imaginations to the fact that these poems have a deep sonic lyrical quality embedded into them. Snow eschews rhyme, focusing on clarity and accuracy...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revisiting Rilke's Translations | 11/10/2009 | See Source »

...ether, Wilder adds. According to the medical historian Paul Strathern, for example, the greatest French surgeon of the early 19th century, Guillaume Dupuytren, once reported that the best method he had discovered for anesthetizing his female patients was to make a "brutal remark" and hope they fell into a faint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Anesthesia: Could Early Use Affect the Brain Later? | 11/3/2009 | See Source »

...just six or seven huge 300- or 400-lb. wrestlers in a room, and to get in the business you had to take the livelihood away from one of them, take their place. So when I first went into the ring, they exercised me until I was ready to faint. And then they broke my leg. (See sports pictures taken by Walter Iooss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hulk Hogan | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

...broader statement then “they end”) that much more moving in potency. It serves to note, additionally, that Mitchell maintains some semblance of rhyme in his translations, as strong as “how” and “Apollo” or as faint as “achieved” and “god.” Nevertheless, these pique our imaginations to the fact that these poems have a deep sonic lyrical quality embedded into them. Snow eschews rhyme, focusing on clarity and accuracy...

Author: By Adam L. Palay, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Revisiting Rilke's Translations | 10/30/2009 | See Source »

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