Word: odd
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...This is my ninth New Hampshire primary, and I've seen this scene before. It is always heartbreaking, infuriating; it is always about health insurance. Biden handled the encounter with a lovely Celtic grace, but it was odd all the same-an emotional moment in a presidential quest that few people are taking seriously. Biden has been a U.S. Senator for 35 years. He has the strongest foreign policy credentials of any of the candidates in the field-in a year when such expertise should be paramount. And yet in the latest New Hampshire poll he is rocking along...
...crowd formed a knot around an ambulance, where paramedics tended to two people who sat on the curb with their heads wrapped in white bandages. New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg later said that one person died of cardiac arrest, several firefighters suffered minor injuries and some "20-odd civilians" had been hurt, some seriously, some less...
Bunin’s play is an odd choice for HRST. It is certainly unique: This may be the only play in existence that is simultaneously a whimsical fantasy and an overt critique of geo-political borders. Ignoring its ridiculous plot, the play is simply not well written, riddled with clichés and obvious morals. At the play’s climax, for example, after watching Adam spend most of his life traveling around the globe in search of Gildoray, he speaks the incredibly revealing line: “I was chasing a kingdom and found it was only...
...odd duck of a spacecraft, scheduled to launch in September, is known simply as Dawn, and its destinations are the asteroid Vesta and the dwarf planet Ceres, mysterious bodies orbiting in the belt of rubble that circles the sun between Mars and Venus. NASA vehicles have been this way before, but they've usually been just passing through on their way to the planets in the outer solar system. This time the asteroid belt itself will be the destination, and the ship will get there courtesy of the young technology of ion propulsion...
...only are the little worlds old, but they're also odd. Vesta, which measures about 330 miles (531 km) at maximum diameter, or roughly the width of Arizona, is thought to account for 1 out of 20 meteorites that strike Earth, while Ceres, which is closer to us, provides none. One reason might be simply that Vesta is made of denser stuff, material that when it breaks away can remain intact through the long journey to Earth. "Ceres is not very thick," says Russell, "and whenever there's an impact, it knocks off ice and a lot of dust that...