Word: lugged
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...lovers of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series who have worried about what Hollywood had in store for the sacred text will be relieved to see that Coltrane's Hagrid bears an impressive resemblance to the gentle giant Rowling described in the first volume: He's a lovable lug--funny and slightly sad--with "long tangles of bushy black hair and...hands the size of trash can lids." And just as he does in the book, he makes his entrance on a flying motorcycle, with a baby in his "vast, muscular arms." Harry has arrived, and he has arrived...
...Some airline industry veterans think it is exactly time for that drastic action. Government officials are apparently looking at trimming the heavy loads that most people lug with them on board, including those bulky suitcases-on-wheels known as 'wheelies.' Given the long lines that have sprouted at screening points at many major airports since the airlines were let back into the air on Sept. 13, government officials are considering rigorously imposing a new rule that is essentially one 'real' carry on and one 'personal' bag such as a women's purse. Officials want to lessen the burden on screeners...
...Sync, will find some answers in Azerrad's book. Somewhere out there, it makes one believe, could very well be brilliant rock bands nobody's heard of, least of all the 15-year-olds at Tower Records, trying to catch some sleep on dusty floors before they have to lug their amps back to their Econolines. And one of those bands might, one day, persuade a few kids to make the trip across town to the mom-and- pop in search of its rare EP. A band that could be your life, or, at long last, the death...
...read last week's issue of the journal Tissue Engineering knows that Frack could someday have a big advantage if a new piece of research can be turned into a practical treatment. According to scientists at UCLA and the University of Pittsburgh, the unsightly flab many of us lug around is a previously unsuspected source of stem cells, a remarkably versatile class of cells that can in principle be transformed into a variety of body tissues. Researchers already suspect that stem cells found in fetuses and in the bone marrow and brains of adults might one day be used...
That's the bad news; the good news is that the days of teachers' having to navigate through error-strewn, out-of-date texts--and of kids' having to lug 30-lb. book bags--are almost over. The major publishers, fearful of yet another report slamming their product, have hired more fact checkers and instituted extra layers of review. More significant, this month McGraw-Hill plans to launch its first e-textbooks--online versions of its printed texts, featuring videos, interactive lab exercises and personalized assessment tools. Factual errors, once discovered, will be corrected immediately. Five years from...