Word: sketched
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...posterboards, announcing the minority party's counteroffer to George W. Bush's $1.6 trillion baby: $900 billion. No details - the Dems are still squabbling about what kind of tax cuts they want - but some proportions. With the projected non-Social Security surplus at $2.7 trillion, Daschle and Gephardt did sketch out a general surplus plan: one third for tax cuts, one third for debt reduction; and one third for new spending (education, a Medicare prescription drug benefit and the like...
...Japan. P> At Celera Genomics, Craig Venter's private company in Rockville, Md., and at the Washington, D.C., headquarters of the publicly funded Human Genome Project, release of the groundbreaking information yielded joy tempered by a teeth-baring spirit of competition. Since last June, when scientists unveiled a preliminary sketch of the human genome, both teams have been working feverishly to publish their outlines of the genetic "map" that defines human beings - and which may shed light on deadly illnesses. After months of bickering, they finally decided to release their papers at the same time...
...stop laughing as he recounts how his TV team once put a plastic bag over a man's face and shoved his head into a cage to watch, up close, a mongoose fight a poisonous viper. And then there's the matador story. In this TV sketch, a pick-up truck decorated to look like a bull charges a matador. "Can I run the matador over?" the driver asked. Beat's quick response: "That would be funny." Beat thrives on humor as public humiliation, but also as a refuge from the rigid social strictures of Japan. "I was sick...
Brown, a San Francisco native, was a member of ROTC and is currently an officer in the U.S. Army, a biographical sketch provided by CBS said...
...LEAGUE OF GENTLEMEN (BBC America, Comedy Central). Part Monty Python, part Blue Velvet, this macabre British comedy introduced the murderous town of Royston Vasey (slogan: "You'll never leave!") and three gifted sketch comics who played more than 60 bizarre but richly defined characters...