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...pneu was obsolete and unprofitable, handling fewer than 605,000 messages in 1983, compared with 2.7 million a decade ago. The fact is that the ministry had actually stopped installing pneumatic tubes in all new post offices some time ago, thus converting the system into a sort of hybrid messenger service. The technique is easily recognized: first let the system deteriorate, then announce that usage is declining, so service must be curtailed and/or prices must go up. It sounds just like the New York City subway. The French postal ministry now offers "postexpress," which guarantees same-day service...
Director Steven Spielberg has remarked that "if E.T. hadn't come to Elliott, he would have come to Michael's house." He reflects that Jackson is like a hybrid of outer space's most famous tourist and of Chauncey Gardiner, the video-bedazzled innocent whom Peter Sellers portrayed in Being There. "I think Michael can be hurt very easily," Spielberg says. "He's sort of like a fawn in a burning forest." Jones watched Michael break down several times while recording She's Out of My Life for Off the Wall, and eventually just left the crying on the track...
...With his hybrid ideology, Gary Hart resists classification...
...book, A New Democracy, chapter epigraphs are pulled from Democratic heroes (Kennedy and Franklin Roosevelt) but also from free-market Economists Adam Smith and George Stigler. Hart's hybrid ideology is bracing...
Monoclonal antibodies are hybrid cells, made up of antibody-producing cells fused with malignant ones. The hybrid cells can be cloned, allowing them to keep producing antibodies necessary to detect the virus...