Word: heavier
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...trek to the next appointment, Neill says that almost all of her clients have space issues. “They always have way too much stuff. They have their “skinny” set of clothes and their heavier set of clothes.” Also, they are struggling with Cambridge housing and its “tiny, shallow closets...
...Second Artillery Corps, which also controls China's nuclear arsenal, oversees the program. Its scientists are expected to translate aspects of the manned space program for military use. Rockets big enough to blast a life-support system to the moon, for instance, will also be able to throw heavier military satellites into orbit. And the increased maneuverability of rockets and satellites could someday help Chinese missiles penetrate America's planned national missile-defense system. Indeed, the Pentagon warned in a report to Congress in July that "China's manned space efforts almost certainly will contribute to improved military space systems...
MEANWHILE IN VENEZUELA ... Jurassic Pet Scientists announced the discovery of a giant guinea pig weighing 300 kg that roamed South America 8 million years ago. Goya, as it was nicknamed by paleontologists who excavated its 3-m long skeleton, is the largest rodent ever found - 700 times heavier than its fluffy modern-day cousin. Experts speculated that Goya died out because it was too slow to escape predators and was too big to dive into burrows like its more petite relatives...
...swears it never implied any connection between Iraq and the attacks, the fact that so many Americans believe that association - and therefore, obviously, hold it as a central reason for the U.S. invasion of Iraq - must be worrying. Because as the burden of occupation on ordinary Americans grows heavier, the fact that the postwar reality debunks the myth of a Saddam connection to 9/11 may nonetheless function to diminish enthusiasm for the administration's war effort...
...already clear that direct White House intervention is necessary to resolve every substantial step along the way, and the load is likely to get even heavier. Like President Clinton before him, President Bush may have already created the expectation among the Israelis (and soon, no doubt, among the Palestinians, too) that Washington will give them a hearing whenever they need one. But the onset of the Fall marks the beginning of the next U.S. presidential election season, which according to conventional wisdom is not a great time to be micromanaging a painfully tough and complex peace process. And that...