Word: mucking
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...junior is a member of groups such as the basketball team’s “Leprechaun Legion,” and even more predictably “Muck Fichigan.” Stovall additionally lists “Rap, R&B, Hip Hop, slow jams, panty droppin [and] old school” as his favorite music.The Bible is his favorite book...
...Temperamentally, the two shows are bookends. ?60 Minutes? says all?s wrong with the world; ?CBS Sunday Morning? says darn it if there isn?t a lot right with it. One show is curmudgeonly, the other celebratory. One rakes muck, the other finds a pony there...
...Geobacter has an even more remarkable talent. Just as the microbes can give electrons to iron, they will gladly donate them to an electrode, which creates an electrical current. Navy researchers first observed "electrified" sea muck in 2000. From this, Lovley's lab has corralled Geobacter into sediment batteries that could be powering battlefield electronics within a year...
Weiner-Davis' action-oriented scheme suited Roth and Meredith. "It's really freeing to just focus on the solution and clear out all the muck," says Meredith. Weiner-Davis encourages couples to identify what they want the marriage to look like, then list actions they can take--dinner out once a week, playing tennis or golf together, help with the housework--to achieve those goals. "The concept of real giving is so simple, but it really gets at the heart of how to make a relationship work," says Meredith...
Generals, the saying goes, are always fighting the last war. With the nation understandably focused on aviation security and biological, nuclear and chemical threats, technologists hope their message--that network vulnerabilities are real and that a significant failure could muck up everything else--is getting through. Security risk is a shifting balance between individual and institutional responsibilities and vigilance. Or, as Geer succinctly put it, "The price of freedom is the probability of crime...