Word: twistings
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Mario Capecchi is the one with the spiral-staircase story: the starving, homeless Italian street kid who found his way to America, to Harvard, to Utah, ever the refugee, before finally arriving at eternal glory and the Nobel Prize. It's in many ways a familiar tale, Oliver Twist meets Albert Einstein, the pilgrim who comes to the promised land expecting, as he says, "the roads to be paved in gold. What I found actually was just opportunity." But his story also has enough nice serrated edges to challenge our theories about genes and genius and what really makes...
...cares? It’s free. You can get all the ingredients you need right in the dining hall. Grab a trash bag, a gallon of orange juice, two cups of sugar, and two crusty dinner rolls. Toss the juice and rolls in the trash bag and twist it shut while leaving enough empty space for gases to build up. Put the bag in your sink and run hot water over it for thirty minutes to activate the fermentation process. Once the bag is nice and warm, wrap it in a towel and stow it in a dark place. After...
...what Mark Steyn wrote on National Review Online: "Bad things happen to good people, and they cause financial problems and tough choices. But, if this is the face of the 'needy' in America, then no one is not needy." Nameless commenters to conservative blogs were even harsher. "Let 'em twist in the wind and be eaten by ravens," wrote one one on Redstate.com, who was quoted in the Baltimore Sun. "Then maybe the bunch of socialist patsies will think twice...
...until midnight, Thursday through Sunday.At 10 p.m., Newell begins his “Big Hemp Show.”“Would you like to sing your favorite marijuana song?” Newell asks, and then begins to sing: “Roll, roll, roll your joint. Twist it at the end…” His puppet is holding a large marijuana spliff, which glows when he brings it to his mouth.Two audience members decide that they want to sing along, and stand behind the additional three-foot-tall puppets. When they find the microphones...
...another. MUSHARRAF AND BB MAKE IT AT LAST, says a third. A popular e-mail going around shows a photograph of Musharraf and Bhutto doctored to look as if they are the happy couple at a traditional Pakistani wedding ceremony. The Supreme Court ruling is just the latest plot twist in an ongoing drama. "This is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing," says...