Word: plucking
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...months old will probably dictate a child's sleep patterns well into childhood. Parents who sleep with their babies in the connubial bed will enjoy a rare period of closeness and ease during the first few months of life. (This ended for me the night my baby decided to pluck out my eyelashes.) If parents or baby don't sleep well in a shared bed, they shouldn't share...
...strong first half of "Red Dirt Girl" makes a legitimate case for Harris' transition from gifted vocalist to artistic voice. Her yearning, lonesome essence has been further distilled in these ineffably sad songs of lost opportunities and broken dreams, especially in the title track, about a woman whose pluck and resilience are not enough to break the vise of bad luck and bad choices. Harris' geographic specificity in telling the story (variations on the refrain "just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian") only intensifies the sense of isolation and loneliness, and in moments such as these...
...block of brushed steel encased in transparent, light-catching plastic. With silver wires feeding it from beneath, it looks like a floating digital brain, and certainly qualifies as an objet d'art. When I wasn't gawking at my test model, I was groping it. I had to pluck the motherboard-and-hard-drive core from its housing just to make sure there weren't any dilithium crystals hidden within (instant disassembly is one of the Cube's neater features...
...Everyone wants to know if Clinton, who's scheduled to speak Monday night at the Staples Center, will pluck that monkey from Gore's back, accept full blame for the Lewinsky scandal, and raise the vice president above such sordid matters. Clinton did take a step in that direction this week, speaking to a church group; he explained that he was still picking up the pieces after what he'd done to his family, and that no reasonable person could possibly associate Gore with his own misstep...
...wealth of information the Pentagon wouldn't have in a real attack and wouldn't be likely to get. But Pentagon officials insist their relatively crude discrimination technologies will keep improving. They say measuring subtle differences in projectiles' mass, motion, reflection and rotation will enable the Pentagon to pluck the real warhead from among the decoys. But the officials decline to detail the technical wizardry behind their assertion, saying that divulging their techniques would only aid potential foes...