Word: traps
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...always fall into the same trap. We want news that is interesting. We want news that is late-breaking. We want news that is exciting and that spurs excitement, disgust, lust. It must. It must. Or else we tune out and go about our business. The press often fills that inner need for stimulation but not without a backlash in negative public opinion...
...Weekly Standard, the Washington magazine that styles itself the official voice of the Republican revolution, has an overheated editorial in its March 4 issue titled "The Buchanan Challenge." Buchananism, the editors declare, is a corrosive anti-institutional populism that threatens to undo the gains of 1994 and trap the G.O.P. in an anti-American, anti-capitalist swamp...
...Coast, where the virus is known to have struck the animals twice since 1993. The scientists plan to scrutinize any changes in chimp behavior or eating patterns during the midyear rainy season, when the earlier outbreaks occurred. Already local workers are building platforms high in the forest canopy to trap creatures that might serve as a conduit between the infected animals and people...
Although wood-boring insects might have been its target, the resin would also trap anything else that happened to stumble into it, including small lizards and frogs. Bad luck for them, but extraordinary good fortune for evolutionary biologists. In one major deposit--a site in New Jersey whose location is closely guarded--Grimaldi and a team of volunteers have found nearly 100 previously unknown ancient species of plants and animals. These and other discoveries around the world have given scientists some important insights into the workings of natural selection--how, for example, insects and flowers helped guide each other...
...GONNA WIN BOTH," BOB DOLE SAID OF IOWA AND NEW HAMPshire last week, which is really all he could have said, since he's been saying the same thing for almost a year. But how big will those scores be? "You're not gonna trap me in that deal," Dole told me last summer--after predicting that the "fat lady would sing" if he lost New Hampshire. "I don't do expectations." No matter. Everyone else "does" expectations, and there's no escaping them...