Word: straying
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...Friday the 13th. Again. While some Harvard students may spend their day avoiding ladders, mirrors and stray black cats at all cost, the Harvard Secular Society (HSS) will hold an "hour-long superstition bash" in front of the Science Center...
...scene midway through Apt Pupil, Kurt Dussander (Ian McKellen) tosses a stray cat into an oven. The cat, of course, escapes, to wild cheers from the audience. This scene, while not profound or even endurable, epitomizes Apt Pupil. As in almost any drama, the villain is far more interesting than the "hero," who is likely asleep while our villain is drinking Old Crow, listening to opera and amusing himself by throwing cats into ovens or something. Of course, as in any Hollywood film, the one inviolable taboo is that no matter how many humans are gruesomly murdered, an adorable...
...Halogen lamps can get up to 900 degrees," he said. A stray curtain or a tumble to the floor is enough to start a blaze...
...technique may reduce the number of lymph nodes surgeons need to remove to see if breast cancer has spread. Last week a report noted that by using a radioactive tracer, it's possible to pinpoint the few nodes most likely to harbor stray cancer cells --and biopsy just those instead of 20 or more. The advantages: less pain and lower risk of permanent arm swelling...
...airline of sterling reputation. What is known of the cockpit's communications with air-traffic controllers appears to rule out terrorism. But not the terror of mechanical failure. And so the questions were asked. Was it a problem akin to what most probably destroyed TWA 800--a stray spark igniting gases in a fuel tank? Or was it some hazardous, poorly packed cargo like the kind that destroyed ValuJet Flight 592 over the Florida Everglades? Or was it something else, some yet unknown and insidious little technicality...