Word: uncommon
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...guns," he says. "It's not uncommon to have a tour guide who carries...
...Haydenville, Massachusetts, Barbara Allen and Robin Juris are providing their biological children Hannah, 7, and Cody, 3, with the rural environment lacking in their former home in Oakland, California. They inseminated each other using the sperm of casual friends and took extensive, though not uncommon, legal precautions to avoid facing a custody dispute. "In our hearts we trusted these men," says Allen, "but we also wrote up a contract." The children have met their biological fathers; that word, however, is never used. Says Allen: "They are donors. They don't have a role that would approximate the real role...
...Antibiotics may be able to cure at least one form of stomach cancer. British doctors report that the presence of a germ called Helicobacter pylori is necessary for the growth of certain relatively uncommon malignancies in the stomach. Tumors disappeared in five of the six patients treated for the bacterial infection...
...have a chance to confer with the assistant in advance, of course--and we all like to be called "assistants," not "graders"--you may be able to ferret out one or two cosmic assumptions of his own; seeing them in your bluebook, he can only applaud your uncommon perception. For example, while most graders are politically unconcerned, not all are agnostic. This is an older generation, recall. Some may be tired of St. Augustine flattened by a phrase, or reading about the "Xian myth...
Aidid's real name is Hassan. Following a common custom, his mother chose a nickname for him that she thought expressed his uncommon determination: Aidid means "one with no weaknesses." He fancies himself a poet in a country nourished on oral tradition and lives the spartan life of a nomad. In the 1950s he served in the Italian colonial police force and as a general in Siad Barre's army in the war with Ethiopia. But as a tribal rival of Siad Barre's Darod clan family, he was never fully trusted and was imprisoned without trial for six years...