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...never forget that Christmas morning in 1984�when I got the mother of all Lego sets, the medieval castle, and how happy I was snapping the colored pieces together to build it higher and higher. So it was a special treat for me to open up the latest iteration of the Lego franchise, a sophisticated system of sensors, motors and computer controllers called Lego Mindstorms...
...miraculous as we choose to deem it. According to University of Utah Professor of Pediatrics, Human Genetics, and Obstetrics and Gynecology John M. Opitz in his 2003 testimony to the President’s Council on Bioethics, 60 to 80 percent of embryos (i.e. unique fusions of genes from mother and father that encode distinct human beings) simply never develop further. They are either flushed out of the mother’s system without implanting into the uterine wall or are voided because of chromosomal abnormalities. Of this immense number of failed embryos, roughly half do not have gross genetic...
...Your mother was right when she said to avoid talking about sex, religion, and politics; it may be tempting to bring up those hilarious Healey ad attack campaigns or to mutter prayers under your breath for the entire meal, but remember, not everyone will think these practices as charmingly quirky as you do. And, short of angling to uncover your prof’s predilection from office hours hanky-panky in your quest for a recommendation, there’s really no excuse to be bringing up your sex life with this intimidating adult you hardly know. Avoid the wine...
...Hunt, was dubbed “the world’s richest man” in 1948 by Life magazine. As an illegitimate child, she spent her first seven years in a modest three-bedroom house just a few minutes away from her father’s mansion. Her mother, Ruth Ray, raised Swanee and her three siblings as the offspring of a fictitious husband with the surname “Wright.” Life as a single mother and woman of faith was difficult in 1950s Dallas, Texas...
...those seeking omens on Saddam Hussein's day of judgment, Mother Nature obliged: Sunday dawned wet, cool and clean in Baghdad after overnight showers rinsed the city of several layers of desert sand. Late in the morning, Ahmed Hussein, a government-employed street sweeper, looked up into the overcast and still-rumbling skies and nodded approvingly. "This is the right weather for a day like this," he said. "The rain is God's blessing upon the verdict...