Word: vocalisms
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...tiger to take a wrong step. But when the trap's jagged metal teeth sink into its paw, the tiger howls-an alarm that can rouse a sleepy park ranger. So, a smart poacher will plunge a spear down the trapped animal's throat and tear out its vocal chords; then, at his leisure, he can poison or electrocute the cat-or, if the buyer doesn't mind a bullet hole in the pelt, simply shoot...
...admit that I can all but feel the drizzle of impending adulthood. On my walk home from work, after all, it’s hard to ignore the basketball court that sits quietly downstairs. Vocal in its silence, a filthy backboard invites more than the hope that the coming rain won’t wash our scuff marks away...
...again? Ho boy. I haven't had a drink in a year, but right now, I really want a cocktail." McGraw says simply, "Uh, I've never done this before." (He does have a cocktail.) Once a duet partner gets used to the live instruments, there's the vocal to reckon with. "You don't want to sound like you're doing an impersonation," says Costello, "especially since he'd be the best person to copy and he's standing right here." Still, all three end up slipping into imitation. "Am I doing Tony too much?" Joel asks the control...
...only person more vocal than Kolbe about his hatred of the penny is recent Berkeley biophysics Ph.D. Jeff Gore. Sensing the penny's sudden vulnerability, his group, Citizens for Retiring the Penny (basically also known as Jeff Gore), has been appearing all over news shows and talk radio. Based on a Walgreen's study that says pennies waste two or more seconds on every cash transaction, Gore estimates that we each lose several hours a year, at a cost of $10 billion in productivity. Using that calculation, Gore has lost $50 billion in productivity by talking about the penny...
...America's ongoing and sometimes rancorous discussion about science and God, some stock characters have evolved. There are the vocal proponents of creationism and intelligent design who storm school boards in hopes that either science or local government will conform to their beliefs. Then there are academic atheists who claim increasingly aggressively that science is in the process of proving religion a delusion. But few of the polemicists have the authority to preach beyond their own choirs. Most believers don't care to listen to an atheistic scientist calling the idea of God a mythology created to explain what humans...