Word: papered
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...Under the headline "The 100 Days that Did Not Shake the World," the paper gave Obama a tentative thumbs-up for his policy changes concerning the economy and international relations. "On ethical questions, too - which from the time of the electoral campaign have been the subject of strong worries by the Catholic bishops - Obama does not seem to have confirmed the radical innovations that he had discussed," said the article, which noted that Obama's stem-cell guidelines were "less permissive" than expected...
...long as I’m not missing something huge, like a midterm or a huge deadline, I’m okay with it. If there is a case where I’ll miss a paper, I’ll get it done beforehand and then I’ll reward myself,” she said...
...year you can feel bad about taking the easy road to drunken senior spring. Yes, it's the 2009 Hoopes Prizes! The list (here, quick read it so you can congratulate that friend of yours that everybody knew was going to win it!) contains some of the most arcane paper titles we've seen this side of a neuroscience convention. And of course, we've got lots of the standard "Colorful Quote": Boring Description of Paper Title Construction (The thesis we always wanted to write was "From Russia With Love: The Cuban Missile Crisis...
...polar climatologist Jonathan Bamber of the University of Bristol, long suspected that the old estimates were a little alarmist. For one thing, in previous studies, climatologists had defined the area that would be most susceptible to a collapse too widely, including, for example, the Antarctic Peninsula, which the paper calls "both topographically and glaciologically distinct from the WAIS," mostly because it lies largely above sea level. Its higher elevation would put it out of reach of coastal meltwater, keeping its ice cover primarily intact. What's more, even within the areas of the WAIS that lie below sea level, there...
Cutting a real breakfast is like saving on a clothing budget by buying shiny new sneaks but going shirtless, or cutting vehicular costs by filling up on premium gas while refusing to change the oil, or slimming down a office budget by cutting all paper while beefing up the highlighter order...