Word: trickyness
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A crowd gathers in front of the window of NO XS to watch a scene serenely out of place on this trendy stretch of street. More than a dozen people are seated inside, needles poised, as owner Michele Renee hosts one of her popular monthly knitting parties. Renee, who also...
Currently, Guilford Pharmaceuticals in Baltimore and Amgen in Thousand Oaks, Calif., are collaborating on a synthetic neurotrophic compound that can be taken orally and then travel to the brain, where it bonds with proteins in dopamine neurons. The tricky part is that most trophic molecules are too big to cross...
Even in friendlier circumstances, reversing a trial court is a tricky business. Appellate courts must be careful about second-guessing lower courts on facts, which the trial judge has often seen firsthand. They have more leeway in reversing for mistakes of law. The Florida justices shrewdly based their decision on...
One of the most intriguing issues is the question of irreparable harm. To get a stay, a party has to show it will suffer permanent damage without it. The damage of halting the count seems clear: it will be hard for Gore to win the election if the counting is...
In Woody Allen's Crimes and Misdemeanors, a successful TV producer claims there is one inviolable rule of comedy: "If it bends, it's funny," he says. "If it breaks, it's not funny." It is precisely such mundane thinking that brought us Suddenly Susan, but there's a bit...