Word: weirdness
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...lawyers claim the subpoena is a violation of their client's right to privacy, but the California Supreme Court took the Johnsons' side, passing down their judgment without comment: The appellate decision, ordering the donor to appear in court, will stand. And so there may be a very weird moment looming on Donor 276's horizon, in which he encounters the reality of a daughter he'd never imagined...
...Verizon had launched a national name-awareness campaign just when the strike started. They'd have been better off saving their money; not only did the simultaneous contexts result in a bit of weird dissonance (kind of like Firestone ads last week), but the business-channel free publicity was worth millions...
...active in the far-right John Birch Society, which touts her as one of its speakers. Indeed, Foster's rants, calling schools "Marxist training camps," probably won't penetrate Bush's strong center-right coalition. But the pick of a black female Bircher seems fitting--the perfectly weird coda to the Reform Party's weird year...
...have ushered in another style that's definitely less stylish: reach out and crush someone. Why mess around with technique when you can grab a guy and hurl him to the floor? "The Europeans tend to be physically strong, pulling you in and crunching you. Grabbing your belt in weird places," Pedro explains...
...measure what was expected would be a post-Big Bang cosmic slowdown. The idea was to compare the expansion rate today with the rate billions of years ago by gauging the speeds of exploding stars called supernovas--Riess's grad-school specialty. But in January 1998, Riess saw something weird: the number he was getting for the slowdown kept coming out negative. The universe wasn't slowing down; it was speeding up! "This seemed to imply," he says, "that some force is acting against gravity." Crazy as antigravity sounds, the idea was originally suggested by Einstein as a kind...