Word: perfective
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...grant you, the popular media sometimes strain credulity when they portray microscopic life in terms we can understand. An item on eMaxHealth.com this week began as follows: "Like shoppers in search of the perfect pair of jeans, the body's special immune system cells apparently have assistants that help them rapidly 'try on' different pieces of a microbe to find one piece that's shaped just right to fit their cellular skins...
...justice. (Though it has some: as Gary J. Bass has argued, Saddam still faces trial for an even worse offense, the genocide of Kurds at Anfal in 1988, which will never be prosecuted adequately if he is put to death now.) It comes down instead to politics. In a perfect world, Iraq's courts would be free of sectarian biases and worthy of public trust. But many Sunnis who loathed Saddam distrust the institutions of the Shi'ite-led government even more. I doubt that most Sunnis will view Saddam as a martyr any more than Saddam, whose entire regime...
...heart, so is he") to Norman Vincent Peale's 1952 self-help bestseller The Power of Positive Thinking. The Secret - created by Australian reality show producer Rhonda Byrne - is so hokey at times you have to roll your eyes. But to a lot of enthusiasts, it makes perfect sense...
...wish I had a river so long, I would teach my feet to fly" - and the second time, she holds the last word for 10 seconds, as it gathers strength, touches on a wistful tenderness and breaks off. In one note, and so many moods, it is a perfect flight, from gentle ascent to a graceful landing on tiptoe...
...with an excess of acetaminophen to process. And that's even before the glass of wine or bottle of beer that many of us like to have at the end of day; alcohol also puts the liver to work, and the combination of everything at once may be the perfect storm that sends the liver into failure...