Word: sheering
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...people, and a disco fire - once again blamed on lax regulation - killed an estimated 43 revelers in the southern city of Shenzhen. But citizens' furor over poisonous infant formula and the seemingly blatant failure of regulation in the milk industry overshadowed all those tragedies. One reason was its sheer scale: more than 50,000 children sickened, some 12,000 hospitalized and four dead...
...sheer size of the LHC - watching scientists work on its gargantuan components brings to mind a colony of frantic Lilliputians - and the complexity of the science behind it have resulted in bouts of eschatological fear of its destructive potential, with websites and even two lawsuits claiming the LHC will create black holes that will swallow up the earth. (The cover images of this week's issues of the Economist and TIME would suggest that black-hole anxiety has in fact bubbled up into the public consciousness.) But while such scenarios have been ruled out, the machine does pose a small...
...advantage. "Traditionally, Republicans have done a better job with mail-in ballots," says Mike Hamrick, chair of the Arapahoe County Democrats in Colorado. "We always used to say, Democrats win on Election Day and Republicans win in the post office." But as the popularity of early voting grows, the sheer number of voters involved makes that slice of the electorate more diverse. Polling in 2004 and 2006 has shown that those who utilize early voting still tend to be older, which would seem to help McCain-but they're also more educated and affluent, demographics that have supported Obama this...
...tracks, listeners will find evidence of a broadened musical vocabulary and Yohanna's growing confidence. As a vocalist, this Irene is far more dynamic than the neophyte who hesitantly warbled her way through Gravity. There is plenty to love about her and about the current Indonesian music underground. For sheer style, it has no Asian equivalent...
...complete with nude photographs. Questions ranging from what effect the nude spread will have on di Pasquale’s future career prospects to why he chose to mention that his ex-girlfriend thought his “splooge tasted like unripe bananas” are dwarfed by the sheer audacity of the act itself. The immense self-love poured into a full-color magazine essentially produced to display the mind and body of its creator is truly astounding. Diamond magazine is Harvard’s answer to Alexy Vayner, the Yale graduate who became a YouTube sensation after...