Word: lingers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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There are limits to what even the most enthusiastic states can do. In California, where scientists' morale is perhaps the highest, worries linger about the lack of federal backing and the possibility that Congress could someday trump state law with nationwide restrictions. That discourages some young scientists who are deciding whether to specialize in stem-cell work. "Students are scared to commit," says Hans Keirstead, a spinal-cord researcher at the University of California at Irvine. "They don't know if the laws are going to change, and I can't fully dispel those fears...
During the day, it is possible to linger over a long lunch, watching the Tremont Street traffic through the floor-to-ceiling windows. A steady stream of regulars comes to examine the week’s offerings, usually leaving with several sandwiches worth of spoils...
...students set up, scores of Harvard visitors and students on their way to class stop and stare; some linger to read the thought–provoking questions in the midst of rubbing the sleep from their eyes...
...Bomb are annually commemorated this way in Japan, where floating paper lanterns are a symbol of dead souls. Similar lights bobbed along dozens of other U.S. waterways last week. Said Cameron Gundersen, a pediatrician in La Crosse: "The purpose of this commemoration is not to assign guilt or linger among the images of death but to remind ourselves of what we are capable of doing. We are capable of destroying the world's civilization. More important, we are capable of preventing that...
...tell you what I did enjoy: the mornings after, when Vadim was gone and the woman and I would linger over our coffee and talk. For me it was a way to bring some humanity to the relationship, an antidote to objectification. I would ask her about herself, trying to understand her history and why she had agreed to share our bed (questions I never asked myself!) and, in the case of the call girls, what had brought her to make those choices. I was shocked by the cruelty and abuse many had suffered, saw how abuse had made them...