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...that have been known to stampede across the kitchen floor. I guess they're pretty "unparalleled" too. Bio labs across the country would pay a fortune for a living specimen (a nearly impossible request: they were very fast. If not, they would be reduced quickly to a pool of goo...
...first glance, even that modest goal seemed too ambitious. The scroll, ravaged by moisture, had deteriorated further than they feared. "The first fragments we saw looked like someone had poured coffee all over them," recalls Charlesworth. "The leather had turned a kind of liquid, a black goo." Even the best-preserved swaths of text were peppered with tiny holes where acids in the ink had eaten all the way through the parchment. Says another member of the team, Bruce Zuckerman, director of the West Semitic Research Project at the University of Southern California: "Time has not been kind...
...skin and malfunctioning bank and credit cards, and he believes there may be one. The skins come from the slithery saltwater hagfish, also known as the slime eel. McCosker surmises that the problem is caused by either a metallic left over from the tanning process or some residual goo secreted by the skin. Others say the magnetic clasps on some wallets are the culprits. Whatever the case, some banks are dispensing vinyl card covers to ward off the attack of the anti-capitalist eels...
THERE ARE students at Harvard who are quite happy with the academic schedule. There are also people at Harvard whose heads, which normally store important stuff such as thinking goo, are currently filled with a substance of no merit whatsoever. I don't mean to imply that there's a correlation between these two types of students--although a correlation obviously exists. I'm just saying that maybe the time has come for us rationally thinking people to sit down with the people who like the current academic schedule and beat them senseless...
...remains one of the best-known brand names in literature, although nowadays hardly anyone reads her short stories, her flop plays, her mostly slight and bitchy journalism or more than a handful of her poems, most of which depend on the confectionery trick of concealing a goo of sentimental self-pity beneath a brittle crust...