Word: latters
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Members of the latter group, however, see their role differently. Readers, they reason, may not be ready or informed enough, given the state of this country's educational system, to know what to do will all the scientific information the media provides their eyes and ears. Their goals include filtering and explaining the day's news. Some might even argue that these science writers are advocates for science, although this would probably be a minority view...
Regular readers of this column and of Sassy may have noticed that the new issue of the latter, which hit the newsstands yesterday, picks Heavenly for the "Cute Band Alert" box. Assuming you read FM the day it came out, it's safe to say you "read it here first." And (making the same assumption) you might remember that the word of the week this week is "zine," which is a contraction of "fanzine," which was coined sometime in the 70s from "fan" plus "magazine"; the missing "maga" (yes, I'm making this up) stands for "mega," since fanzines...
...Kennish, he's one of only two right-handed shots among the 12 forwards in the current Crimson configuration, sophomore Kirk Nielsen being the other. Hard to figure...Tomassoni is still solidly behind both of his goaltenders, sophomores Aaron Israel and Tripp Tracy, even in light of the latter's spotty play of late...
Further investigation uncovered two more cases, and after local health authorities ruled out severe flu and pneumonic plague -- the latter is endemic to the Southwest, and a few cases show up every year -- they turned to the CDC for help. Recalls Dr. C.J. Peters, chief of the CDC's Special Pathogens Branch: "It didn't fit the pattern of anything we'd seen, and all we could figure is that it was something brand...
Market-oriented conservatives still support immigration as a source of low- wage labor. But other conservatives call for immigration restrictions to halt the cultural transmogrification of American society. One of the most ^ outspoken advocates for the latter is Daniel Stein, executive director of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, who favors a moratorium on all immigration, insisting that "nations do not have an unlimited capacity to absorb immigrants without irrevocably altering their own character" -- an echo of a view enunciated more than a century...