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...that Friday a death trap, the worst of all possible times to buy? Let's review that moment, because the question of buying or selling the next big dip, rather than the question of whether there could be another crash (answer: sure as shootin') can make us a big pile of money the next time around...
...Journalists gorged themselves on a hundred hours of White House videotape, only to toss their napkins aside and pronounce the Clinton donor meetings profoundly unsatisfying and far too wholesome for their own good, like a mile-high pile of lettuce leaves...
...there were also some holes in the Herald's report. All the "art experts" who testified to the photographs' reliability refused to be identified. The paper said that along with the photos, it had obtained a pile of tiny chips of paint, but acknowledged it could not authenticate "beyond a shadow of a doubt" that the chips came from the stolen works. Furthermore, its source for the photos was one William P. Youngworth III, a 38-year-old ex-con and antiques dealer who is on his way to jail again on a car-theft conviction. Officials from the Gardner...
...hemipenis, or half penis--hidden in the base of the tail. Some species, such as common king snakes, deploy these alternatively in successive matings--perhaps, says Greene, to allow more frequent copulation. When Borneo's yellow-lipped sea- kraits breed, as many as half a dozen males may pile on a lone female. Copulation is usually brief but can last more than a day for Western diamondbacks (probably to reduce the female's exposure to rival males). Female snakes too deploy cunning reproductive strategies. North American pit vipers, for example, store sperm for months, until some instinct tells the cold...
...fifteen chapters of the book, each of which could stand alone as an elegant short story, pile on thick layers of detail to create an intensely believable and likable character. Information given obliquely in one chapter may be stated directly, as background, four chapters later. But this repetition is never boring; the gradual accretion of detail makes the various twists and turns of Larry's life seem eminently plausible...