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...American public worries that the moon initiative puts too much strain on the national budget, and the American public may be right. With the moon weighing in at 162 sexillion pounds, and Appenzeller selling for $14.99 a pound, buying the moon at Cardullo’s would set the US back $2.4 septillion. Outrageous, the prices in the Square these days...
...been proceeding at a deadening pace. Bored with technical details about the securities industry, spectators contented themselves with divining Stewart's state of mind based on the few outward clues she exhibited: the succession of somber black pantsuits, the weak but polite smile she managed for news cameras, the strain that only occasionally surfaced on her heavily made-up face. When Faneuil finally appeared, a jolt of excitement was palpable in the courthouse. He proved such an engaging witness that he kept the room rapt. By the time defense attorneys got to cross-examine Faneuil on Wednesday, they badly needed...
...likely; if you look at this year’s Best Picture nominees, they’re mostly drawn from the same old strain of Oscar bait: there are gritty epics (The Return of the King and Master and Commander), lacquered period pieces (Seabiscuit), and scenery-chewing dramas (Mystic River). The Academy’s voting deadline may have changed, but their tastes have stayed the same...
...Southern China has long been recognized as the incubator of flu viruses. Traditional Chinese farming practices?especially the close proximity of birds, pigs and humans?promote the mixing of viruses, which mutate and leap between species. New strains are constantly evolving as viral genes are swapped between host bird species. 'The 1997 strain was a reassortment from three viruses from goose and, we think, the quail,' says Kennedy Shortridge, a University of Hong Kong microbiologist who has studied influenza since 1975 ... The so-called Asian flu, first identified in China in 1957, and the Hong Kong flu of 1968 together...
...away, is an idea of possibility. It's an idea of hope. It's an idea of trust. It's an idea of trying and succeeding if you want to." She is a halting, sincere speaker, and even when she has a microphone, you have to strain to hear her. But those very qualities are what draw listeners...