Word: perched
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...this good news? Or is this a threat to humanity's perch of evolutionary superiority? Alarm at the specter of ceding control over the creative process to machines has catapulted the debate beyond the scientific community and into the public forum. Bill Joy, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, has written about a wide range of dangers that could arise when we no longer have our metaphorical hands "on the plug...
...Among the exceptional acts are the Kabanov, Russian aerial acrobats who perform flips and drops from a swaying platform. Breaking with the circus convention of aerial acts defying gravity, the Kabanov embrace it, turning somersaults as they fall from a high moving perch, always landing safely on the tent floor...
...distinctly we remember it was in the bleak November; And each drunken Lampoon member slowly staggered to the floor. With conscience bold and resolve steely, we took the name of Steve C. Hely Longing to see our friend fly freely--freely from the Lampoon door-- Never to perch again atop that painted Lampoon door-- We saved the bird, and nothing more...
...think I can best contribute to the reform process from my perch at Harvard and through my travels around the country to speak to citizens' groups as well as college-based groups," Skocpol writes in an e-mail...
...Sept. 14 in Williamsburg-James City Circuit Court in Virginia, Judge Samuel Powell finally got tired of sitting atop his perch and nodding like a magpie. Alfred Gabbin, 20, stood before him looking at five years for possession of drugs, and he wondered if Powell might go easy. His girlfriend was due any day, and he wanted to be there for his child...