Word: pretenders
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...matter how thick the ice is, the waters beneath it must still be liquid, thanks to tidal heating. This is good news for biology. Scientists don't pretend to know how warm a Europan ocean might be, but even waters that are just a degree above freezing would feel downright balmy to organisms that evolved...
...willingness to make a mistake and build off that," says Eyal Y. Kimchi '00, who began dancing this year with the Ballroom Dance Club (BDC). "Confidence matters more than anything. Do something wrong? Just pretend you did it right...
...would be hard to pretend that de Kooning's output in the '60s and '70s, after he moved to East Hampton, on Long Island, measured up to the qualities of this earlier work, although his reputation by then had grown to near mythic proportions. (So did his prices: in 1989, just before the great art-market bubble burst, $20.1 million was paid at auction for a 1955 painting, Interchange.) De Kooning was a tough bird, but no talent could have been unaffected by the scale of his alcoholic bouts, and the suds-and-mayonnaise color and scatty marking...
...annoyed that Burns' often tiresomely long dissertations are the standard by which all TV documentaries should be measured. "We're trying to develop a style without having to linger on a meadow for 45 seconds," Cascio says. "Biography speaks the language of TV. We don't try to pretend we're doing arty independent cinema...
Scientists don't pretend to know when that will happen, but some science observers fear it will be soon. The first infant clone could come squalling into the world within seven years according to Arthur Caplan, director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania. If he's right, science had better get its ethical house in order quickly. In calendar terms, seven years from now is a good way off; in scientific terms, it's tomorrow afternoon...