Word: perfective
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...show that at its very beginning, the universe was ordered and unified. But this unity didn't last for long. Just instants after the Big Bang, as the explosion cooled and its contents scattered, the cosmos' forces and matter differentiated. The universe fell from a state of perfect grace into its current complexity, in a cosmic parallel to Adam...
...FRANCISCO Design Within Reach's Geneva Sound System (extra large without stand, $1,599) is the perfect antidote to city living...
...risk for obesity was exacerbated by TV watching: 17% of children who slept fewer than 12 hours per night and watched two or more hours of television a day before age 2 were obese by age 3, compared with 9% of the study participants overall. "This is a perfect storm. Not sleeping enough and watching too much TV is a particularly hazardous combination in the toddler years," Taveras says. "There's room for prevention even in the first month of life," she says...
...scoreless ball. PENN 10, HARVARD 0 Quakers stopper Todd Roth bested Harvard’s ace, senior Shawn Haviland, in the seven-inning opener, twirling a two-hit, six-strikeout shutout while Haviland fell to 0-5 on the year with a tough-luck loss. Roth took a perfect game into the sixth inning but O’Hara lashed a leadoff single into left field to spoil it. After he was erased on a double play, senior Jeff Stoeckel lined a base hit into the same spot in left, accounting for the only batter Roth faced over the minimum...
...seemed to do President Vladimir Putin's bidding last Saturday when his U.S. counterpart flew in for a valedictory summit. The rain clouds that had threatened all week were nowhere to be seen, and the Black Sea, usually choppy at this time of year was preternaturally still, providing the perfect backdrop for the two leaders to be photographed walking off into the sunset...