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...have not seen that increased risk in any way, shape, or form,” Malloy said of the idea that younger drivers are more dangerous...
...site’s main value is to stimulate mobilization that would turn out real voters on election day. If a group of people decide to make an organized effort to cast these early votes... it could help them get an organization in shape that would turn out real voters on election day,” he said...
...house in a big rectangle to represent Colorado. (In retrospect, it seems fortunate that the tragedy did not occur in, say, Hawaii.) We all jostled into the outline. Taking direction from someone standing in the bleachers, a group of athletes in bright-red varsity jackets clustered in a heart shape in the center of the crowd. They were supposed to represent the bereaved Littleton. We stood there until an aerial photograph was taken. We sent prints of the photograph to Colorado, and for weeks afterward felt awfully proud of the depth of our sympathy...
...It’s pretty tiring,” Rosensweig said. “I’m not in shape enough for a band of this size...
Noting that the sharks were often in bad shape before they even arrived at the aquariums, owing to the trauma of their capture, Monterey Bay Aquarium's scientists tried to make the transfer of their new arrival--accidentally snagged by a gill-net fisherman off the Southern California coast--as stress-free as possible. She was transported to a 4 million-gal. ocean pen, where she remained for 25 days, monitored by a team of marine biologists and released only after she began eating and appeared to have fully recovered. The strategy seems to have worked: on her first...