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Finding anything on the Web usually involves a too-perplexing acrostic of slashes, periods and ampersands. But a small slip of the finger, even when browsing toward a simple search engine, can yield some real surprises. Below, the adult results of some common typos...
...incision into the shark's back--no easy task, considering that its skin is as thick as a watermelon rind and as tough as leather. The shark doesn't even flinch. "That's nothing," Meyer reassures me, "compared with the wounds they inflict on each other during mating." I slip a barb-tipped wire with a white plastic tag into the incision and tug hard to anchor it in place...
...Lilith tour and the coffeehouse-pop crowd can help halt pop's garbage-chute slide. Such music, on the surface, is gentle enough to slip onto radio playlists, but down deep there are ideas, there is emotion, there is life: the haunting, melancholic feel of McLachlan's new tune Angel; Fiona Apple exploring her post-rape trauma on her heart-rending Sullen Girl; Erykah Badu imagining the life of a gangsta's girlfriend on her soulful Otherside of the Game. Other promising acts from this school are on the way. An advance copy of British trip-hop folkie Pauline Taylor...
...over the Martian horizon, breaking the communications link until dawn; just before the connection was actually severed, a picture came back confirming that the command had been executed. Though a portion of the bag still blocked part of the petal, there was probably enough room for Sojourner to slip...
...Monday, all summer school students and staff will be required to either be immunized or provide proof of immunization. Students will not be permitted to attend class without presenting the instructor a slip from...