Word: piked
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...least not until the ratings tank). With all due respect to conservatives' electoral achievements, the cultural changes that helped drive them to the polls this year--most notably stem-cell research and gay marriage--are still barreling down the pike like souped-up Hummers. Stem-cell science will progress with or without Washington's support. (Indeed, thanks to Republican Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, California will be raising $3 billion to advance the cause.) And once the science reaches a certain point, most legislators will undergo a conversion. It's one thing to oppose research that still looks like a barely conceivable...
...whether a particular search might come back to haunt you, or who might know that you ate dinner at Adams in violation of interhouse restrictions. And maybe, for now, it pays for the unfaithful among you to wait the extra 3 minutes at the toll booth on the Mass Pike, particularly when driving down to New Haven every weekend to visit that girl you met at the Yale Game...
...guts beat grace. Thursday night at Athens' Olympic Indoor Hall, Carly Patterson bounced back from a klutzy performance in the team event and pranced, pirouetted and double-piked her way to gold in gymnastics' marquee event, the women's individual all-around competition. The 16-year-old pocket dynamo from Baton Rouge, Louisiana, became the first American woman to claim the medal since Mary Lou Retton in 1984. "You dream about this your whole life," she marveled afterwards. "Then you win the gold medal." Or you dream about it your whole life, then lose. That's what happened to Patterson...
...have seen the reports and we are disappointed with this decision,” said Steve Pike, a spokesperson at the State Department, which has been trying to secure Yang’s release. “We have repeatedly called on Chinese officials to release him and we will continue to do so. We note that he had been detained without conviction for more than two years, which is against China’s own laws...
...median may seem, it is hardly ideal in practical terms—a magnetic express along the same route as the existing highway would be of little use without branches connecting to suburban communities, and those branches would take yet more land and money. Even worse, the Pike delays that would be necessary for the monorail’s construction would be devastating—just ask commuters on the Van Wyck Expressway in Queens, who suffered for years during the construction of an “AirTrain” to John F. Kennedy International Airport. (Kennedy...