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...talents. But he himself was proud of them, and listeners today, accustomed to the burr-in-your-ear juxtapositions of hip-hop and electronica, may find something bracing in the sheer sound of these records, a pleasing shiver in hearing Parker's acerbic horn cutting against the schmaltzy grain of massed violins. Then again, this may be a minority opinion...
Both Rakoff and Curll recommended that students use "grids," compilations of data from each year of applicants to law schools from Harvard, but added that students should take the grids with a grain of salt...
...raced ahead too fast for legal doctrine to keep up. And nowhere is the gap between what scientists have discovered and what judges must rule on greater than in the realm of artificial reproduction. An estimated 80,000 to 100,000 frozen embryos--fertilized eggs no larger than a grain of sand--are being preserved in liquid-nitrogen canisters across the country. As many as 20,000 of them could be in legal limbo. As of now, the courts have no clear rules for resolving questions of ownership and control. Lawyers can't even agree on whether a frozen embryo...
...bullied and brainwashed into looking for the pass first and the shot second. When the leather of the roundball touches your hands, your first thought is, Who else is open? Not, How am I gonna get my shot? It's not easy to learn, and it goes against the grain of me-first American individualism and the lure of million-dollar sneaker contracts. The highest skill of a Princeton basketball player is not to run, jump or shoot but to see. And it is still the rarest basketball skill...
...Washington these were dry statistics, but in the Midwest, disastrous facts. In North Dakota, which had barely an inch of rain in four months, there was no grass for cattle. Farmers tramped their dusty fields watching their dwarfed grain shrivel and perish. A baking sun raised temperatures to 90[degrees], to 100[degrees]. And still no rain fell. Water was carted for miles for livestock. In Nebraska the State University agronomist gloomily predicted that many fields would not yield over 5 bu. of wheat per acre (normal average: 15 to 20 bu.). In Minnesota they mocked Washington's crop predictions...