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Yeah, these stories sell. Especially when local reporters manage to make you look more insufferable than you actually are. Parents intent on breeding Harvard graduates cut these out and pin them above their offspring's beds for nightly inspiration...
...swine flu outbreak that has sparked widespread fear - so much so that Egypt has ordered the slaughter of the country's 300,000 pigs, even though no cases have been reported there - is easy to pin on the eponymous animal from which it emerged, but the fact is, the current epidemic is little more than an accident of evolution. If pigs are to blame, so too are birds and humans. (See pictures of thermal scanners hunting for swine...
...have to pin the rap somewhere then, forget any one species or country and blame simple biology. But regardless of whence the virus came, the more salient question is, Where will it go? That's what concerns doctors as they work to stem the epidemic and make sure healthy people stay that...
...sundown light on that dog-hair lodgepole pine and the dead branches of spruce trees.”In this volume, Wright draws on every source he can—religion, science, mythology, and even popular music—to try to pin down an image or emotion. “Sundown Blues” concludes with the “sundown light” he had just described “chameleoning” away and captures the feeling with the down-to-earth rhythms of a southern spiritual: “No one is able to describe this...
...Ancient historians chronicled the act, Shakespeare dramatized it, and HBO even added its own to spin to the tragedy with the lavish TV series "Rome." Yet while we may know how Cleopatra died of snake poison, after her consort Mark Antony fell on his sword, archaeologists have yet to pin down where the legendary couple was laid to rest...