Word: paled
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...things taxpayers aren't ready to pay for--genes of unproven benefit, say, or alterations whose downsides may exceed the upside. (The tendency of genes to have more than one effect--pleiotropy-- seems to be the rule, not the exception.) The question will be which techniques are beyond the pale. The answers will change as knowledge advances, but the arguments will never...
...Janowski] was really pale, and she said she was having immense pains," says junior Laela Sturdy, who was Janowski's roommate that night at Stanford. "She wasn't passed out, but she was really not doing well. It was one of the scariest things, to see your teammate in that much pain and not know what's going...
...escorts people to heaven, decides to become mortal himself so that he can have beautifully lit sex with heart surgeon Meg Ryan--and you have to admire the daring of a movie in which Meg Ryan playing a heart surgeon is not its most farfetched element. But both films pale in audacity next to What Dreams May Come, released last month to fair box-office returns and featuring Robin Williams as a doctor who dies and goes to heaven and then journeys to hell to rescue his wife. And yes, that makes a trend: unintentionally goofy metaphysical romances about death...
...have just changed my mind about the death penalty. I am no longer opposed to it. And I pray that Shepard's killers will receive it. As for the beyond-the-pale jokers of the far right who flatter themselves that they are closer to God than the rest of the world, their sentences are reserved for the Last Judgment. A surprise awaits them, for God loathes hubris. RICHARD OLNEY Sollies-Toucas, France...
...slightly spooky, probably dusty New York State Armory to present a fashion show? Perhaps to throw the girlishly innocent clothes into sharp relief. Jacobs' show was suggestive of a group of tiny yet gorgeous schoolgirls who had lost their way but were bravely striding on. His palette of pale blues, grays and metallics, with a detour into a striking series of gunmetals, kept it chaste. "The drawstring must be a trend," whispered celeb guest Lauren Holly. Not to mention cap sleeves, shirring, scalloped edges and a lot of stuff a romantic six-year-old would favor, including aprons and petticoats...