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Hard Times said Liacos had failed to investigate possible police misconduct during the state medical examiner's autopsy on Largey's body and what the group termed "the highly irregular procedure of the first autopsy and the hurried embedding...
Before the redistricting, a map of the 9th District looked like a long, irregular polygon. Now it doesn't look like much of anything except a classic case of gerrymandering. The "new 9th" is an irrational district which combines urban with suburban problems and wealthy property towners with poverty line constituents...
...contrast, Hicks's re-election campaign has been a bit harder to find. She has no official campaign headquarters, but merely a series of neighborhood storefronts which are only open at irregular hours. Callers to her Congressional District office at the Federal Building who ask about the campaign are instructed to leave their names and told a campaign official will call back. No, they can't give out the names of any officials, nor say where they can be reached. I called two weeks ago, and am still waiting for the return call...
When Caltech Astronomer Charles Kowal first examined the photographic plate that he had exposed atop Mount Palomar last month, he was openly skeptical. At the edge of the small, irregular galaxy that he was studying in the constellation Centaurus, he saw a large burst of light brighter than the entire galaxy itself that had not been there before. Had a stray asteroid wandered into the telescope's field of view? Closer inspection quickly revealed that the light came not from a nearby asteroid, but from a far more awesome heavenly phenomenon: a supernova, the explosive death of a giant...
When pigeons trained by the consistent method were switched to irregular reward, "they went to pieces," hitting their heads against the walls, flapping their wings, and pecking wildly at everything in sight. By contrast, birds trained on the intermittent system did not go wild when a correct peck failed to produce food. Instead, they stayed calm, continued to peck only at red, and soon were rewarded with the "deserved" snack...