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Hench was first fouled trying to make a run into the offensive third. Junior defender Matt Edwards stepped up to take the indirect kick, and hit a short ball on the ground to Hench, who was making a hard run to the near post. The senior had clearly beaten his man and was pulled down only six yards from...
...dating of this find is indirect. The rocks that held the fossils didn't have the right minerals for radiometric dating. So the researchers relied on known ages of kindred vertebrates (for example, the rhynchosaurs appear to be anatomically primitive cousins of ones known to be about 228 million years old). The scientists pegged the Madagascar fauna at about 2 million years older...
...impact is indirect, but it's very real," Ma said...
...right in theory, is sterile and empty without that goal." And while he labeled his chief Democratic rival, Vice President Al Gore, an out-of-touch "Washington politician," Bush also lectured conservatives that "government is not the enemy of the American people." Even Bush's father was an indirect target. "It is not enough [just] to call for volunteerism," said W., suggesting that simply praising charities as President Bush once did with his "points of light," without offering them government assistance...
Last year, when I made my first online purchase, the UPS yen resurfaced. By then the Internet had emerged as a retailing force. I even recommend buying shares of FDX Corp., parent of delivery company Federal Express, as an indirect play on the growth of online shopping. I still believe FedEx is a great stock. But it was the UPS man who had delivered my package. If only...