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...Scientists announce they have fused human cells with cow's eggs and created a hybrid cell. (Suggested co-star: Elsie...
...points and fees up front. And if you can recover those costs in less than half the time you'll be staying in the house (but no longer than four years), it's not a bad choice. Also, if you plan to move in the next few years, a "hybrid mortgage"--with which the rate is constant for three, five or seven years and then goes adjustable--could make the most sense...
Director Paul Anderson envisions Soldier as a sci-fi/western hybrid, perhaps something along the lines of Road Warrior or Waterworld. Apart from barren settings, however, the three films have little in common. Soldier takes itself quite seriously, but the story's take-home message is so blatantly obvious that viewers may wonder whether the movie is actually some sort of farce poking fun at itself. Subtly crafted lines such as "My daddy always said, `If you want to put a nail in a board, you don't do anything fancy, you just use a hammer'" spoil any hope...
...everyday speech despite its grammatical incorrectness--is to follow the gender-unspecific subject with the plural "they" ("If anyone wants to, they can pick up their paper..."). This construction may not sound too bad when spoken, but it doesn't look too good on paper. Another possibility is the hybrid "s/he." However, whereas "they" seems awkward on paper, "s/he" is awfully hard to pronounce in everyday speech. A few years ago, Expos instructor Nathaniel Lewis came up with a novel solution to the pronoun problem when he and his students invented the pronoun "e" to substitute for its inadequate pronominal...
Karteron said RUS is specifically urging a hybrid of the University Health Services and the LCR. The center would be a "safe space" for rape survivors to spend the night, in addition to a general forum for the discussion of women's issues...