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...many of them bad. The trick is to evaluate them and mercilessly purge the bad ones. But even bad ideas can be useful. Darwin's notebooks, for example, show us that he went down many dead ends?like his theory of monads. These were tiny hypothetical life forms that sprang spontaneously from inanimate matter. If they died, they took with them all the species into which they had evolved. Darwin spent years refining this bizarre theory before ultimately rejecting it. But it was a critical link in the chain that led to his branching model of evolution. Sometimes...
...President than bolstering his own sagging public image. The President's poll ratings remain at a five-year low, and two of the big reasons are a discouraging war for which Cheney served as head hawk, and the indictment of Cheney's chief of staff in an investigation that sprang from a heavy-handed White House effort to discredit an annoying critic. The prosecutor's narrative makes tantalizing reference to one or more conversations Cheney had about the matter with the aide, I. Lewis (Scooter) Libby, which raises the possibility of a fight for the Vice President's testimony...
...best because it had everything the other houses had and more,” including sushi (one of Yuan’s favorites) and monkey bread—whatever that is. What was the inspiration for Yuan’s satiating pursuit? According to her, the idea sprang up when she was discussing Open Houses with a friend from Lowell, who then invited Yuan to the next Lowell Open House. “I was curious about other Open Houses because ours was so good,” she said. “And the food is way better than...
...minute, late-night conversation with Clinton came forward anonymously last week to tell the New York Daily News that ''there was no sex involved'' in their relationship. Clinton had been calling, she insisted, to ''help her through a personal crisis.'' Other doubts about the President's accusers sprang up. Both troopers acknowledged that they had been caught cheating on their own wives in the past. Patterson was once suspended from his trooper job for allegedly beating his wife. The pair is also being sued by an insurance company, which charges that Patterson lied about a one-car collision, in which...
...Hartigan’s a tough back. There were times when it looked like he was down and he just sprang back into play,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said...