Word: ought
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...outcry in France indeed portends global trouble, it's by no means clear whether it ought to. For all the controversy that GM technology is causing, the fact is that biotech companies have succeeded in dreaming up some extraordinary plants. Monsanto, which produces the hugely popular herbicide Roundup, has made just as big a hit with its line of genetically modified crops that are immune to the Roundup poison--thanks to a gene that company scientists tweezed out of the common petunia and knitted into their food plants. Other GM crops have been designed to include a few scraps...
...parents don't know about polio and diphtheria," says Dr. Natalie Smith of the California Department of Health Services. Nor, she warns, are they always aware that in a shrinking world, polio and other infectious diseases can be "only a plane ride away." These are points that parents surely ought to consider if they're thinking of not getting their kids vaccinated...
...Jets (giving 7.5) over the Patriots. The Pats aren't that bad, but the J-E-T-S just might be that good. The revenge of Curtis Martin and a Meadowlands full of Big Apple faithful salivating over the prospect of a postseason without John Elway ought to cover this fleshy spread without too much nail-biting. Parcells will miss injured plugger Wayne Chrebet ? but not this week...
...stock-optioned young people I know seem to be showing no signs of suffering mightily from the new disease that I've been reading about--"millionaire angst," a condition that can apparently disable an otherwise healthy and prosperous 28-year-old who, while stripping paint from what ought to be a perfectly adequate starter house, can't keep himself from dwelling on the fact that a contemporary of his in Silicon Valley is starting with a house that costs $9 million...
What impressed the research team was not just the fact that the gas was moving but how fast it was moving--6.5 million m.p.h., judging by the redshift. This is exactly the kind of searing speed a black hole ought to produce. While the Goddard scientists may not have the distinction of being the first to see a black hole itself, they are thus the first direct witnesses of its extraordinary power...