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...difficult to guess who Will Ferrell is channeling here. Is he supposed to be a mix between Dale Earnhardt and George Bush? An egomaniacal racing superstar? The boy who never grew up? Just your average...
...nature of science to mix hope with hedging. It is the nature of politics to overpromise and mop up later. But the politics of stem-cell science is different. Opponents of ESC research--starting with Bush--argue that you can't destroy life in order to save it; supporters argue that an eight-cell embryo doesn't count as a human life in the first place--not when compared with the life it could help save. Opponents say the promise of embryo research has been oversold, and they point to the cures that have been derived from adult stem cells...
...enrapture an audience of evangelicals, command a meeting of the NAACP, and passionately testify before a commission on Hurricane Katrina in a church basement. And though at times she struggles—she still inflects awkwardly when delivering punch-lines and her laugh sometimes seems forced—the mix of her striking intelligence, her newfound confidence in taking political risks, and her personable manner exude a presidential mystique. Already, many Americans feel this aura as the ABC poll suggests: 37 percent of Democrats (and 19 percent of the general population) are already committed to a Clinton campaign for president.But...
...worried confusion, as though I'd asked him to pour tequila directly into my mouth. I imagined what he was thinking: A margarita like that would be far more costly than the ones Applebee's serves, since a pure one contains only liquor and juice, not shelf mix...
...Applebee's time - three or four minutes - and when he brought it to me, he didn't look me in the eye. I took a sip from the glass (which he had forgotten to salt) and tasted a cloyingly sweet dross. He had clearly added "Applebee's signature margarita mix," after all, and I couldn't stomach it. I ordered a vodka martini instead. The martini was watery, but I was too embarrassed to order a third drink, so I struggled through sobriety. I was beginning to hate Applebee...