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English is still recovering from the mad dash to finish the show. "There was not an iota of room for a mistake, a misstep, for losing a day or even half a day," she says. After all the pressure, she had a "momentary freak-out" half an hour before the first taping. "I was pacing around in my office and expressing tremendous anxiety. It all just came out. I was exhausted." The stars, too, sound relieved that the ordeal is over. "From the beginning, we poured our heart and soul into this," says Steenburgen. "Diane's biographical work...
...always believed--that life arises wherever the conditions are right." And because the sun is just one star in a galaxy of 150 billion stars, in a universe of billions of galaxies, the universe may well be teeming with life, some of it intelligent. "We are just one iota among countless iotas in the universe," Drake insists. Someday, he hopes, SETI's radio telescopes will hear from the others...
First, I challenge Mr. Graham to submit to the media any evidence of my published writings where I have allegedly misrepresented my institutional affiliation. I submit to the readers that there is not one iota of truth about this allegation, and that Mr. Graham is a pathetic liar...
...gave him a lot of help on his Hollywood speech." By making the fight personal, Dole got everyone so caught up in skirmishing that most of the coverage missed the central fact that Dole hasn't changed his commitment to ban most abortions--or the actual party plank--one iota. That's the beauty of making a friend an enemy, however temporarily...
...Regardless of what you think of illegal immigration...there isn't one iota of evidence that legal immigrants take out more than they put back.," he said. "There's no reason legal immigrants should be discriminated against...