Word: hatching
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What about the morning coffees and the Lincoln Bedroom sleepovers at the White House? The Hatch Act does forbid executive branch employees from fundraising, and it prohibits all fundraising on government property. But on this score, you can pick your loophole from a number of options: (1)The Hatch Act exempts the President and Vice President from its provisions; (2) specific areas of the White House are exempt from the governmental property provision; (3) the entire act applies only to contributions to campaigns, not parties. The conclusion: No illegal activity here either...
...federal property, as amended over the years, are now so elastic that they are virtually impossible to break. The biggest loophole of all was the one nearly everyone missed--not that Gore was using a Clinton-Gore campaign credit card when he went dialing for dollars; not that the Hatch Act's limits on fund raising don't apply to Presidents and Vice Presidents; not that there is no case law (no "controlling legal authority," in the phrase Gore invoked seven times in 24 minutes) to proscribe his behavior. It was a loophole big enough to drive Air Force...
...researcher, he probed the embryos' minuscule, 1-mm- to 2-mm-long neural tubes (out of which the brains develop), removing cells from the chickens and replacing them with corresponding cells from the quail. Closing up the windows, he returned the chicken eggs to the incubator, allowing them to hatch at a normal 21 days, whereupon they soon began crowing...
...cyclical critter was due to hatch again anyway, but last week's revelation that Scottish scientists had succeeded in cloning a sheep amounted to a final whack at the snooze button. Now investors are wide awake to the potential wonders of biotechnology for the first time since a euphoric rally in those stocks in 1991. If you're a doctor or scientist, go ahead and take your best shot. Biotech certainly holds great promise, and you may well understand enough to pick the few stocks that will thrive. But overall the industry has been so consistently disappointing that laymen should...
What the program lacked was intuition--the ability to set traps, hatch plots, smell danger and generally enact the violent and paranoid predator from which the human race evolved and to which all great chess players return. What's left is playing percentages. Deep Blue refused to follow a strategy it recognized as a likely loser, even one that any decent grand master could see offered the best chances for victory due to, say, a blunder by a rattled foe. The machine just didn...