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...sure beats watching the XFL because they have "no wussy coin toss...
...avail. Not until I got a replacement unit and downloaded a new file online was I able to get the thing to work right. Even then, the Vista had so many quirks and bugs--names would get truncated, strange error messages would pop up--that I was ready to toss it in the trash...
...which, in the lab at least, inhibit cell proliferation. Well, time to reread those tea leaves. A study shows that folks who drink five or more cups of green tea a day are just as likely to develop stomach cancer as those who barely take a sip. Don't toss out the teapot, however. Green tea may still protect against other cancers...
...politics, it is useful to toss a pithy slogan to one's partisans like a bone to a junkyard dog. The beauty of slogans is that they tell us what to think before we decide for ourselves. In dispensing with the bothersome chore of thought, they make it easy for us to memorize sound-bytes from the evening news and feel like political sophisticates. Sen. Tom Daschle (D-SD) and his pals know this trick well. No sooner did President George W. Bush conclude his fine speech last Tuesday than the Democrats tossed us a meaty slogan from their political...
...Dupont thinks the steel industry is already more consolidated than the numbers indicate. "In financial circles they tend to toss up tonnage and look at what's left over and call that overcapacity," he says. "The amount of raw steel isn't really relevant to this discussion." The bulk of profits in the steel industry-when those profits materialize-isn't in the molten goo that comes out of furnaces. It's in the finishing process-when the goo is turned into billets (two tons that can be formed into beams or cables) or slabs (up to 50 tons that...