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...nonstop bellowing of a male red deer over several days is apparently quite effective at inducing reproductive readiness in females. Other species use more subtle signals to seduce their mates, including a full arsenal of sexy pheromones. A little of this chemical magic goes a long way: the merest trace of a female moth's scent will attract the attention of males from miles downwind...
...Garrison Nelson, an expert on the educational background of American presidents, balks at the merest suggestion that Yale’s curriculum was responsible for the glut of candidates this year...
...public--that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even the searchlights that for a time stood in for the Twin Towers were a limp steal from Albert Speer's light-cathedral at the old Nazi rallies, an unhappy bit of involuntary symbolism if ever there...
...public - that can no longer be done by high art, even if there was much high art to do it with. If the various bickering factions ever come up with an agreed-upon design for a monument to 9/11, it is almost sure to be committee-bland or the merest kitsch. (Even the searchlights that for a time stood in for the Twin Towers were a limp steal from Albert Speer's light-cathedral at the old Nazi rallies, an unhappy bit of involuntary symbolism if ever there...
...found plenty of ammunition. At his next appearance with Barr, he joked, "I'm going to wear a bulletproof vest." "It's certainly not a joking matter," Barr shot back, "the way Linder is treating it." Barr speculated the gun might have had a "hair trigger," so that the merest touch could have set it off. "I certainly did not pull the trigger," he asserted. All the same, he should probably avoid campaigning at any missile silos...