Word: insertive
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...responds just as parents should, showing an absurd level of interest in the mundane details of my everyday existence. Yet in the history of this overshare-heavy relationship, I have never once uttered the sentence: “Today, I felt attracted to a man.” (Insert “Harvard students are ugly” joke here.) When a male friend recently expressed a similar sentiment to his similarly-close father, his dad responded as I suspect my mother would—with indifference. “I don’t walk around informing people...
...plan, no federal dollars will be used to fund abortions," the President was referring to direct funding. But when Richard Doerflinger of the USCCB praised Obama, saying "We especially welcome the President's commitment to exclude federal funding of abortion," he was interpreting the statement as a pledge to insert language prohibiting indirect funding of abortion...
...Japanese scientist Shinya Yamanaka first induced stem cells from adult mouse fibroblasts—cells most commonly found in connective tissue—by using viruses to insert four genes into the fibroblasts. These genes worked to reprogram the cells into pluripotent stem cells...
...happened to virtually every undergraduate looking for an easy core, interesting elective, or fun foreign language course. You placed your trust in Foreign Cultures (insert number) only to find yourself betrayed, jaded, bested by the Q Guide. Or maybe you simply ignored the numerical rating—a three is better than average, right...
...Senator Jay Rockefeller, a West Virginia Democrat and longtime champion of the public plan, said he intends to introduce an amendment to insert the federal alternative into the bill, though there was no word if Baucus would accept such an amendment. "The proposed co-op model is untested and unsubstantiated and should not be considered as a national model for health insurance," Rockefeller said. If Dems choose to go it alone without any Republican support, it's possible they could include such a plan in the final version of the bill. But many moderate Democrats, such as Landrieu and Nebraska...