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Usually, plumbing systems contain a "water trap," a kind of moat where water collects in a curved pipe. Normally, cockroaches can't cross it, but in the summer months the water evaporates and the roaches can get inside...
...jump to conclusions until all the data is in and all the causes and effects are connected. Scientists almost universally agree that the earth has warmed by about one degree Fahrenheit in this century. Some attribute that to the so-called greenhouse effect, caused by man-made gases that trap the sun's heat on the earth's surface, raising water and air temperatures. Some believe that the warming may be linked to the natural hot and cold cycles that have affected the earth since prehistory, causing, for instance, the ice ages that resulted in glaciers covering much of North...
...jokes ("I was in bed last night with m' boyfriend Ernie...") and her farewell song to Johnny Carson (You Made Me Watch You). He helped Billy Crystal with the '90s' most sit-throughable Oscar shows, capped by the 1993 gender-bending song parody (to the tune of The Tender Trap): "Those eyes/ Those thighs/ Surprise!/It's The Crying Game." He was the writer when Whoopi Goldberg performed before President and Mrs. Clinton--and when Ted Danson did his blackface bit at a 1993 Friars Club banquet. "He told the worst, racist, dirty, just filthy awful jokes," Vilanch recalls...
...camps, enragedly quoting each other out of context, treasuring each "[sic]" like a captured enemy standard. People weren't a bunch of Voltairetrained parrots, who dutifully preface every rebuttal with a formulaic declaration of how earnestly they support the right of their opponents to speak, regardless of the clap-trap spoken. And today? The name "Al Gore" says...
...questions, they imply that nothing is out of bounds, not even questions about rumors of drug use from an unelected press corps that has its own skeletons. His approach was harder to pull off: raise the bar, create a zone of privacy, don't fall into the trap of trying to prove a negative. The problem is that Bush went about his nondisclosure selectively. In a political age when biography is destiny, Bush has not exactly clammed up on personal matters, detailing over time his history as a drinker, his religious conversion, his fidelity to his wife Laura. It amounts...