Word: fashionably
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Closest to home -- in the Milky Way itself -- Cornell and Caltech astronomers have found what may be the early stages in the formation of a new solar system, showing for the first time that a dust disk surrounding a sun- size star orbits the star in an orderly fashion. Such disks, initially found in the early 1980s, have been touted as the precursors of planetary systems. This discovery makes the claim a notch less speculative and suggests that stars with planets may be quite common...
...Fashion Report: The Basketball Notebook rarely delves into questions of fashion, but two pressing notes came into our hands recently...
Citizens of Los Angeles have long maintained that they buy and imbibe bottled water in record amounts not out of fashion but out of necessity. The city's tap water, many of them claim, is heavily dosed with chlorine and often dirty. Not so, says this month's issue of Consumer Reports magazine, which rates Los Angeles' drinking water as "excellent" and says it is for the most part "flawless or nearly flawless." In a test of 50 bottled waters as well as tap water from Chicago, Houston, New Orleans, New York and San Francisco, Los Angeles' H2O ranked with...
Well, in the days since, the phrase lead on, o kinky turtle has assumed a profound significance in the course of my wanderings. I use it in a kind of incantatory fashion, muttering "lead on, o kinky turtle" whenever I feel shorted, stiffed, put upon by outside forces. I keep it handy, as you would a rabbit's foot, for there is a lot of bullying going down in this town, my new home, and one must strive not to be caught without a device to ease the pressure gathering under the hood. Lead on, o kinky turtle. The first...
...conflict plays itself out in typical movie fashion, with the villain triumphant and then paying the price. But by the end of the film it doesn't seem to matter. The platoon and its politics are the extent of the universe for these grunts, but amidst all the killing and terror and death, justice, poetic or not, has no meaning...