Word: ridding
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...with was a 1 followed by something like 100 zeros--roughly a hundred billion billion times the number of atoms in our universe. It was an answer that didn't please anyone. Says Max Tegmark, a theorist at the University of Pennsylvania: "People have tried very hard to get rid of these multiple universes and failed. They just don't like the concept; they think it's weird. And they're right. But don't we already have good evidence by now that the cosmos really is weird?" To Einstein's celebrated musing about whether God had a choice...
...Despite their seemingly profound geopolitical differences, the leaders of all three of these countries had harbored scarcely concealed hopes that they would soon be rid of Bush. As the ballots came in, they recognized that they had miscalculated?badly. South Korea's Blue House, for one, called an emergency meeting of its National Security Council after the outcome became clear. Why the alarm? Because Pyongyang, Beijing and Seoul are all co-dependents in that great ongoing geostrategic A.A. meeting known as the "North Korean nuclear crisis." Dubya, meanwhile, is a confirmed purveyor of The Cure...
...true with most major tragedies in life, it takes more than a couple of weeks to get rid of the blues. Each day is a struggle. When the alarm rings in the morning, it’s suddenly difficult to yank yourself out of bed as an underlying sense of pain and loss grabs at your heart and makes that dreamy delirium you just left seem oh-so-inviting. After the tragedy that befell us on Nov. 2, I’ve barely been able...
...putting politics ahead of real reform. On Sunday, Newsday quoted a former senior CIA official, who charged that the Goss shakeup is really about evening old scores: “The agency is being purged on instructions from the White House. Goss was given instructions ... to get rid of those soft leakers and liberal Democrats. The CIA is looked on by the White House as a hotbed of liberals and people who have been obstructing the president’s agenda...
...going to war. I blame the media for the mistakes about Saddam's WMD, not the Republicans in Washington. Nixon Benoit Malden, Massachusetts, U.S. For young Americans and young Iraqis to kill each other in a continuing cycle of violence in no way furthers the antiterrorism cause. Getting rid of Saddam was a good idea. But replacing his secular dictatorship with a fundamentalist theocracy would not be so good. Iraq will probably have a civil war that will eclipse and consume any puppet democracy that the U.S. creates. Stay the course? That was our motto in Vietnam. Daniel T. Arcieri...