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...turned out we held several beliefs in common, such as the small-deprivations theory of child rearing, which is to hold back on things like ear piercing until age 13 no matter what the other mothers are doing. We also agreed that panty hose are God's punishment for letting women practice law. But that spontaneity had leached from Clinton by the time she wrote It Takes a Village, a programmatic tome. It is nonetheless moving briskly at $20, a fairly inexpensive way to give a vote of confidence. It must be small comfort to Hillary in month seven...
Soon, inspired reconstructions of the Cambrian bestiary began to create a stir at paleontological gatherings. Startled laughter greeted the unveiling of oddball Opabinia, with its five eyes and fire-hose-like proboscis. Credibility was strained by Hallucigenia, when Conway Morris depicted it as dancing along on needle-sharp legs, and also by Wiwaxia, a whimsical armored slug with two rows of upright scales. And then there was Anomalocaris, a fearsome predator that caught its victims with spiny appendages and crushed them between jaws that closed like the shutter of a camera. "Weird wonders," Harvard University paleontologist Stephen Jay Gould called...
...little like drinking out of a fire-hose... There are literally eight or 10 important things to be done every day and not rest, no chunk of time to sit and reflect," he added...
...Fuhrman boasts. "Their faces were just mush. They had pictures of the walls with blood all the way to the ceiling and finger marks of [them] trying to crawl out of the room." Afterward, says Fuhrman, the officers were so bloody they cleaned themselves up with a garden hose...
...scuba (short for "self-contained underwater breathing apparatus") by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Emile Gagnan in 1943. Swimmers had been trying to figure out how to get oxygen underwater for thousands of years. Sponge divers in ancient Greece breathed from air-filled kettles; bulky-helmeted diving suits linked by hose to the surface first appeared in the 1800s. But it wasn't until scuba came along that humans, breathing compressed air, were able to move about freely underwater at depths of more than...