Word: handing
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...current Supreme Court is not likely to hand down a judgement allowing the partial-birth abortion procedure to be used indiscriminately. Even the Roe v. Wade ruling allowed individual states to make laws discouraging abortions in the third trimester. However, the Court should, and hopefully will, reaffirm the protection for cases in which a woman's health is endangered...
...David Letterman-esque professor of Science A-35, "Matter in the Universe," Kirshner lightens the atmosphere in his cluttered office with a steady stream of jokes. After a one-liner about slacker students and a quip about make-up exams, he quickly turns to the matter at hand--attempting to distinguish astronomy from astrology...
...What seems really weird to me is that on American Airlines, you can open up their magazine, and there it is: your horoscope. It's very funny, they have a very flamboyant sort of a wild guy writing these things, and it's entertaining. But on the other hand, what's keeping the airplane up? It seems so wacky to me, that an enterprise that depends on an understanding of the physical world, and requires people to have confidence in their ability to do so, at the same time have this sort of mysticism...
...blaring a baseball game, the other showing a blank scoreboard, smoke and conversation drifts over from the bar, and Putnam speaks about his first bowling experience. "I was in a league in the old days when they had people up above the pins, who set the pins by hand," Putnam says...
...Approaching the lane for the last bowl of the game, Putnam rubs his hands over the hand dryer and checks his shoes--habits he says he usually performs before every bowl. "It's sort of like how Nomar Garciaparra always checks his sleeves and things before he hits...