Word: slicks
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...presented an excellent case, as did they,” said team co-captain Daniel L. Goodkin ’06. “I’d say we presented the stronger case with the available facts but that they were a little more slick in their presentation.” Harvard’s new ranking—second in the nation out of over 600 college teams—marks a surge in recent years. “Four years ago we were unranked in the top 200 programs, so we have made a pretty monumental leap...
...area. The results were stunningly clear. "We could tell very quickly that there was structure containing hydrocarbons," says Kevin Plintz, a Canadian geophysicist who owns Terra Seis. That wasn't too surprising in Tawke, where generations have watched oil seep out on the surrounding hills and turn to a slick black film in the gnawing winter cold. Sitting cross-legged on his living-room carpet over a lunch of mutton, village chief Tahir Ezeer Omar remembers that when he was 10, a German visitor told his grandfather that the oil in the hills "was like gold, that it would someday...
...country hits and longtime co-host of the hayseed variety show Hee Haw; in Los Angeles. Although 16 years in Hee Haw's Kornfield Kounty made Owens appear part of the Nashville establishment, his music career was spent in defiance of what he considered country music's slick, string-heavy arrangements. As a popularizer of the Bakersfield sound, named for the California town that was a destination for Dust Bowl refugees like himself, Owens used honky-tonk vocals and rock-'n'-roll guitars to add edge to his songs. His 1988 duet with Dwight Yoakam, Streets of Bakersfield...
...side of the road, hidden below a field of snow, a massive slick of crude oil had spread over nearly two acres of tundra. An aging pipe, installed during the Ford Administration, had corroded from the inside and oozed oil out of an almond-size hole--a leak that went undetected for at least five days. None of the pipeline's alarms were tripped. In all, 201,000 gal. of crude escaped, making the spill the largest ever to hit Alaska's North Slope...
...coming to help manage the news torrent. We will need tools that combine machine and human intelligence, reputation, and popularity.Readers and viewers will also need to bring a more sophisticated approach to interpreting media reports and news sources. When any website can be made to look as slick as any other, and rumors race around the net at the speed of light while truth trails in a sometimes futile chase, the reader (or viewer or listener) has to be more skeptical at the outset. Although it seems that younger people are better at this online scrutiny than their elders?...