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Wilford had another first-down pass, a 13-yarder to junior running back Chris Menick, but he could not convert on a second third-down opportunity. The drive went 36 yards, so Wilford showed again that he can lead the team in a substitute role.
Linguists have offered other solutions. The most common alternative--which has become acceptable in everyday speech despite its grammatical incorrectness--is to follow the gender-unspecific subject with the plural "they" ("If anyone wants to, they can pick up their paper..."). This construction may not sound too bad when spoken...
Though the lack of plot continuity adds comic flair to the most serious interchanges, the text of The Compleat Wrks really isn't much different than what you'd find on 10 randomly selected pages of the Riverside Edition. With men playing women, pathetic melodrama, the overuse of gaudy props...
The first choice for the lead was Jackie Chan, but he preferred to keep making films like his current hit Rush Hour. So Tong and his partners suggested Hung, who as another huge Hong Kong star was a logical substitute. Hung took the part because he liked the character, who...
Kids will love this. Eating sweets may ward off ear infections--if the sweet contains a sugar substitute called xylitol. In a Finnish study, children given chewing gum with xylitol had 40% fewer ear infections. Xylitol, it turns out, is a powerful antimicrobial. It is used in small quantities to...