Word: stirs
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...worried that the GOP is trying to sabotage a compromise in order to provide a campaign issue and portray the opposition as intransigent, as they did to great effect with homeland security in 2002. A Democratic Senate aide said that Democrats on Capitol Hill "are concerned that this will stir up the right-wing opponents and kook fringe while accomplishing very little," creating "a side issue" that distracts from the goal of getting a good bill...
DIED. Arthur Hertzberg, 84, contrarian Jewish scholar and civil rights activist; near Westwood, N.J. After Israel's 1967 Six-Day War, he caused a stir by calling for a Palestinian state. Yet when the Rev. Daniel Berrigan, a liberal Roman Catholic priest and peace activist, attacked Israel for "domestic repression," Hertzberg rebuked him for "old-fashioned theological anti-Semitism." Determined to entwine Judaism with social causes, he called the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum the "national cathedral of American Jewry's Jewishness" and suggested Jews expand their focus. Instead of offering "platitudes," he said, "a rabbi should be where the real...
Such a shift in thinking is already under way, thanks to the special nature of cancer stem cells. Unlike embryonic stem cells, which stir up moral and political passions because they can, in theory, be used to create an entire human being, cancer stem cells are mutated forms of adult stem cells that can only make copies of their own cell type, be it blood or skin or lung tissue. What gives those adult cells their "stemness" is the ability to generate more stem cells like themselves (and thus continue to regenerate blood or skin tissue) and to churn...
...Straw also expressed hope that the frank discussions stir the Iraqis to action. But, he acknowledged, he had enjoyed this feeling before, and it had passed...
...throwing out leftovers, allrecipes.com has a handy feature. The free site will generate a list of recipes that use whatever you have on hand, omitting anything you would prefer not to add. Got some broccoli and beans but hate cheese? A quick search yields simple veggie soups and a stir-fry. You can even specify how much time you're willing to spend in the kitchen...