Word: tears
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...Whitt would have liked to hide first baseman Justin Morneau. A hot prospect, Morneau was playing with the Rochester Red Wings until mid-July, when the Minnesota Twins called him up. He went on a hitting tear, prompting the Twins to keep the Canadian in their lineup rather than let him go to Athens. Clubs are allowed to recall their players from the Olympic team as late as Aug. 5, three days after the Canadian squad holds its first practice...
...Riversleigh's extinct megafauna (though many of these creatures were known already from deposits elsewhere in Australia), among them the rhinoceros-sized Diprotodon optatum, distantly related to the wombat; and the 3-m tall, 400-kg flightless bird Dromornis stirtoni, which had a beak large and sharp enough to tear the flesh off a kangaroo, if not as a predator then as a scavenger. Extracting the fossils of such creatures is harder than finding them. These palaeontologists aren't eggheads: they spend seven hours each day under a scorching sun levering boulders and smashing them open with sledgehammers...
...order to believe that this threatens heterosexual marriage, you have to believe it's a zero-sum game. If gay couples get married, then somehow straights will not. But why not both? Why cannot marriage bring us together rather than tear us apart? The answer, alas, is that this President has decided it will help him politically to tear us apart. His base is restless over government spending and Iraq, and this is a means to placate and energize it. If that means turning a tiny minority into a lethal threat to civilization, so be it. If that minority...
...diary of the world's best-selling heavy-metal band as it plays exotic locales, worships Satan and has sex with groupies on giant piles of cash. Actually, the film is a chronicle of Metallica's group-therapy sessions. "It's very emotional," says Berlinger. "You watch this family tear themselves apart and put themselves back together. There were definitely times when I wondered: Why the hell are they letting us film this?" When shooting commenced in 2001, Metallica - drummer Lars Ulrich, guitarist Kirk Hammett and singer James Hetfield - were starting a new album, dealing with the resignation of bassist...
...knew at the time was that I had to make sure rabid scoop-hungry journalists could not could not jump the fence and tear the paper enough to see what was beneath it. The night passed without incident, but it seemed like one of the longest nights of my life. For a while I tried to guess which name it was based on the length of the paper. I thought for sure it was Vilsack and then Gephardt, because the paper seemed to be low enough to cover a lower-case P. I never guessed Edwards. I was too tired...