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...were much better prepared," he adds. "Frankly, I don't understand what the Harvard lawyers were thinking of, because we had 20 witnesses on their witness list, and they never offered any reasonable settlement offer at all. They were pretty confident that they were going to win the trial...
According to a press release from Gear for Sports, the company will disclose a full list of factories it uses to manufacture collegiate clothing...
...could find out your test results or what's in your medicine chest? To head off such fears, the American Medical Association, with Intel's help, will begin credentialing online doctors. A digital identity card will allow them to transmit medical data to patients securely. Next on our wish list: e-docs who make house calls...
...charmingly than when they encounter the second flavor of verb, the quirky irregulars. The past tense of spring is sprang, but the past of cling is not clang but clung, and the past of bring is neither brang nor brung but brought. English has 180 irregulars, a ragtag list that kids simply must memorize...
Language as it evolves is like the game of Broken Telephone, in which a whispered phrase gets increasingly distorted as it passes from lip to ear. Eventually speakers no longer discern the rule behind a motley set of mangled verbs. They just memorize them as a list, as do subsequent generations. These are the irregulars, the fossils of dead rules...