Word: soundness
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...There's no question that the kooks give good sound bites, and Void knows there's been enough evil committed in the names of Jesus and Mohammed. Still, I wanted Maher to confront, and be challenged by, the better class of believers: a Nobel Prize-winning scientist, perhaps, or some articulate Episcopalian or Islamist, or comedian and noted Catholic layman Stephen Colbert. Maher seems interested less in conversation than in confrontation, so his movie is less essay than inquisition. Maybe that tone will win Religulous some conversions, but this critic remains a skeptic...
Finally, notes Weinberg, who was not involved in the new study but is familiar with its design and results, the lack of effectiveness could have been due in part to the trial's small sample size. "The bigger numbers you have, the better," he says. "Five hundred subjects may sound like a lot, but once you start stratifying them by age, by whether they received all of their shots, or which year they were immunized, your total number gets smaller...
...tune of, “Swing Low, Sweet Chariot”)“Cheng HO, sweet carrier, going for the old endzonnnnnne,Cheng HO (Cheng HO!), sweet carrrrrriiieerrr, goinnnggg for the old end zone.”I wish you could hear these dulcet sounds, but alas, we have not developed the technology to allow papers to talk and sing—yet. (Did you see Harry Potter? If wizards can do it, surely Bill Gates can, too!)This, my friends, is how you cheer. I’ve seen many students coming out to the recent home football...
...then there’s the collider itself. Statistics about it don’t even sound real. Particles will reach 99.9999991 percent of light speed. Temperatures can drop to 456.25 degrees below zero. We’ll find the “God Particle!” (Not quite as apocalyptic as it sounds...
...outfits by unabashedly acknowledging the issues that genuinely matter without proselytizing. And the band members know that’s just what their audience wants. No, this isn’t Bloc Party on steroids. It’s just what music in the 21st century is supposed to sound like...