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...includes one of the key "Wake Up the Grader" phrases--"It is absurd." What force! What gall! What fun! "Ridiculous," "hopeless," "nonsense," on the one hand; "doubtless," "obvious," "unquestionable," on the other, will have the same effects. A hint of nostalgic, antiacademic languor at this stage as well may match the grader's own mood: "It seems more than obvious to one entangled in the petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists--at times, indeed, approaching the ludcrous--that smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbarities, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast...
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...were on our heels at that point," Fisher said. "We just tried to match their energy...
...animal intermediary, and if that altered virus is highly contagious, Hong Kong's tiny outbreak could grow into a global pandemic. It is a long shot, but influenza viruses have performed such feats in the past, usually by trading key genes with other influenza viruses. These mix-and-match sessions seem to happen most often in pigs but can also occur in other mammals, including people...
...watch two computers match wits in a chess championship, and shop in the dairy section for frozen human eggs. But in culture we will still look to the past, as we do today, for clues to a better, truer, snazzier time. Everything old is always new again...