Word: tricking
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Bott received his first rigorous education when he arrived in Canada for a year of high school after skipping two years and being elevated to his senior year for answering a trick mathematics question correctly. But only after graduating as an electrical engineer from McGill University would his talent in mathematics come to the forefront...
...noblest endeavor." He plans to tour Europe and Australia this summer and then spend a week on Broadway filming an HBO special titled I'm Telling You for the Last Time; it will mark the last time he performs his current act. It's a kind of self-imposed trick, he says, to force him to write and perform new material. "I would like to be considered a great comedian. I don't think I'm there yet." Who is? "Richard Pryor. Bill Cosby. I haven't gotten personal enough yet to be considered great by my definition. That...
While he'll never have the subfle beauty of bands like Autechre or the technical virtuosity of Squarepusher, Moby succeeds resoundingly in making techno immediately accessible to an American audience, falling into the same category as the Chemical Brothers or the Prodigy. Unlike the one-trick-pony Chems, however, Moby is an a multi-faceted musician; his upbeat optimism has very little in common with the misogyny and Goebbels-inspired aesthetic of the Prodigy...
This time Smith was able to redirect a slapshot from the right point by Asano past Marfione. That fifth tally not only gave the sophomore a career first hat trick, but it was also Harvard's second power-play goal of the game...
...same trick that enabled scientists to clone Dolly could one day be used to clone a human being, a possibility Wilmut finds dismaying. The father of three argues that it is every child's birthright to be regarded as unique, not a counterfeit version of someone whose strengths and shortcomings have been revealed. The President of the U.S. and the Pontiff in Rome sounded alarms. Laws were debated; ethical questions raised; scientists were hauled before legislative panels and warned not to trespass on human territory. But how can one un-know science? The issue is one posed by Blake long...