Word: thinly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Woman of the Inner Sea, the intrigues and excesses of Sydney society provide delicious background and important plotting points. But the scenes are thin beside Kate's semi-legendary transformation into a tough bird of the outback. Keneally's long delay in revealing details about the death of Kate's children is a deliberate tease and annoyance...
...police are not obligate to protect the public, and the police have often been unable to do so. The Los Angeles riot, the murder of a Norwegian student at M.I.T. and the recent spate of violent "stalking" crimes against women in Massachusetts all show that the police are stretched thin in this era of tight budgets and increasing drug-related violence. We Harvard students are fortunate to have two effective police departments patrolling the campus...
...discovery of a lifetime. The turkey-size predator, ! with its mouthful of sharp teeth and long tail, looked quite similar to the theropods. Even so, says paleontologist Mark Norell, it shares a number of features with modern birds. "In Archaeopteryx, for example," he explains, "the fibula ((the thin bone in the leg)) touches the ankle. In birds that doesn't happen, and the same is true of Mononychus. Birds have a keeled sternum ((or breastbone)), where the flight muscles attach. Mononychus also had a keeled sternum." Some of Mononychus' wristbones were fused together, which is another hallmark of adaptation...
These pieces highlight the childlike drawing style for which Klee is known. He drew his figures with spontaneous, thin black lines and did not rework them. The fragmented figues show the influence of Cubism on hiswork but this playful style set him apart...
...this beautiful scenario: virtually no team in baseball except Atlanta can point to five solid starting pitchers. Just ask Detroit Tigers manager Sparky Anderson, who went without a victory in 16 straight spring-training games because his pitching staff resembles that of the Bad News Bears. "Pitching's been thin for so long," he moans, "that I just don't think it can get any thinner. Already you're seeing the thinning of the thin...