Word: milling
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...testosterone talk from the White House may be grist to the mill of President Bush's domestic popularity, but it's getting U.S. allies abroad a little nervous. But despite anxious calls to Washington for clarification after the State of the Union address, President Bush delivered a further salvo during an address on Thursday: "People say, what does (the "evil axis" warning) mean? It means they better get their house in order, is what it means. It means they better respect the rule of law. It means they better not try to terrorize America and our friends and allies...
...time being, students must take the stairs or use another elevator located near Mill Street to reach their rooms...
...greatest impact for good or ill in 2001 was made by Osama bin Laden. Neither Mayor Giuliani nor President George W. Bush would have been a candidate except for the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11. Without the events of that day, 2001 would have been a run-of-the-mill year. TIME chickened out. JAIME ARBONA Mayaguez, Puerto Rico...
Once scientists cloned run-of-the-mill livestock like Dolly the sheep, could exotic endangered species have been far behind? Meet Noah the gaur, the first endangered clone. The gaur is a species of wild ox that is fast disappearing from its native India and Burma. Noah started out as a skin cell on an adult gaur that was fused with an empty egg from an ordinary cow and then brought to term by another cow named Bessie. Scientists hope that similar operations will someday be a practical way to keep endangered species alive. Too late for Noah, however...
According to its curator Bruno Gaudichon, in the early '30s people in the mill city were determined to create "the most beautiful swimming pool in France." Architect Albert Baert produced a complex in which all classes mingled, including the factory hands whose homes lacked electricity and running water. They must have appreciated the individual bathtubs and shower cabins as well as the beauty salons, massage rooms and restaurant. Visitors entered through a Romanesque portico, changed in a cabin like a monk's cell and then plunged into a 50-m pool under a giant barrel vault terminated at either...