Word: waiting
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...dinosaur. 16. A horse once fell over while I was riding it. 17. I don't believe in democracy. 18. I cried when Spock died in Star Trek II. (See the top 10 1950s sci-fi movies.) 19. I drink two glasses of wine every night before bed. Wait, did I just admit to alcoholism? 20. If you asked me to tell you my favorite movie, I would have a hard time not saying Titanic. (See the 100 best movies of all time.) 21. I once sent a teacher into early retirement by pretending to be a cheetah and swiping...
...compare him and his "burden" to other Presidents when the comparison should not even be made yet. People cheered George W. Bush when he was elected President, but now he is hated by more than two-thirds of America. Obama is a great man, but we should wait to see whether all he is going to do will actually get done. Graeme Harten, Cincinnati, Ohio...
Read "The Long Wait for Male Birth Control...
...crowded urban neighborhoods of Gaza City, where the Israelis would lose the protection of helicopter gunships circling overhead. "We were fighting a modern 21st-century army, and we're just a guerrilla resistance movement," he says. "What did you expect - for us to stand in a field and wait for the Israelis to mow us down?" Indeed, in the classic guerrilla playbook, the insurgent army avoids going toe-to-toe with a conventional force armed with vastly superior weapons, armor and air support. If he has a choice, the guerrilla seeks to survive to fight another day and allow...
Snowfall in London is not unlike the city's quixotic bus service: you wait for what seems an eternity only for several to arrive in quick succession. Serial flurries starting on Sunday had by Monday morning spread a nice little blanket of snow across the British capital. It was only 6 inches deep, but it managed to shut down or sharply curtail service on most Tube lines, it caused chaos at airports, and it halted London's entire fleet of red buses. As disgruntled commuters were quick to point out, unlike today, buses continued running throughout intensive aerial bombardment during...