Word: papered
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...vividly remember my first Superman comic, which my granddad bought me when I was about 7. From that point on, all I wanted to do is draw comics. And specifically, superhero and science fiction comics. Basically I used to copy comic books, and draw my own comics on scrap paper. But I had an education which was rather hostile to that, because I was quite clever at school, and I could do other things like physics and chemistry and stuff, and so I got kind of sidetracked...
...team of astronomers, including Harvard’s Massimo Marengo, found a triple-ring system surrounding Epsilon Eridani, the ninth closest star to the Sun. The rings suggest the existence of three or more planets around the star, according to their paper, which will be published in a forthcoming issue of The Astrophysical Journal...
After every three-minute date, the participants noted on a piece of paper their level of interest in the other party...
...promote and somehow push through Congress the most ambitious agenda any President has carried forth at least since Ronald Reagan rode into town with a lopsided grin in January 1981. "Rahm does not sing 'Kumbaya,' " says an old friend and colleague with a laugh. "He barks orders." His hometown paper, the Chicago Tribune, calls Emanuel a "brutally effective taskmaster...
...formality of the occasion journalists and staff alike shed the jeans they'd been living in through the final weeks of the campaign and ironed out their wrinkled suits and skirts. The seating was assigned, with the names of news agencies scrawled on pieces of paper and taped to the backs of chairs, a first for the Obama organization. Reporters asked one another before hand if it would be appropriate to type notes as he spoke, as we always did when he was just a candidate. The answer quickly became clear: not a single computer remained on for the press...