Word: skillful
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Alas, director Danny Cannon hasn't the skill to make majestic melodrama plausible. As for the facetiousness, Rob Schneider sweats arsenals of ammunition as Dredd's sarcastic sidekick. But the effect is redundant since Sly is his own comic relief. By now Stallone has become a symbol for all that is goofy and grandiloquent in Hollywood's live-action summer cartoons. The hormone that courses through his movie veins could be called preposterone...
...knew it existed. Elmer-DeWitt's years of experience navigating through cyberspace have not only put him ahead of the curve on virtually every Internet-related issue but have also made him unusually adept at cutting through the considerable hype and confusion that surround this baffling new medium--a skill that's especially evident in this week's cover story on the controversial topic of electronic pornography...
...moved quickly out of the secretarial ranks, though, and into a position as a science researcher. In 1982, when Time launched its new Computers section, Elmer-DeWitt became its first writer. "I'm not sure if it was my writing skill that got me the job, or the fact that I'd done some programming on summer jobs during high school and college...
...hypothalamus, a walnut-size structure located near the top of the brainstem that governs sexual development and sexual behavior and regulates temperature and water balance. Many scientists believe that such gender differences as the male facility with math, the female facility with language, girls' slightly superior hearing and skill at interpreting facial expressions are hardwired prenatally through the influence of the sex hormones...
Female officers are especially hard hit, they say, because DO managers tend to typecast male case officers as recruiters and relegate women to lower-status "handling" jobs, in which they debrief, nurture and pay previously recruited agents. The women contend that the skill of coaxing sensitive data out of skittish informants ought to be at least as valued as a knack for striking up acquaintances...