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Since then Patterson has co-written eight of his novels. He'll whip up a detailed outline, then ship it off to his collaborator for a first draft. "I may talk to them on a couple-week basis," he says. "And then at a certain point I'll just take it over and write as many as seven drafts. There were a couple of them that really were a mess," he adds ruefully. "At least twice it's been, 'I wish that I just started this thing myself.'" It's rare for big-name authors to use co-writers...
...entirely veiled, including burqas. When they leave, Lisa Hastings, the manager of Agent Provocateur, explains that they are a mother and daughter shopping for the daughter's wedding lingerie, adding that she sells plenty of "playful" underwear to women wearing abayas. The shop's best-selling item? "The jeweled whip," Hastings says. "We can hardly keep them in stock...
...There were, of course, other sparks that might have lit the last fire for Summers. As Matory puts it, Summers was brought in because ?somebody had the bright idea that we needed a ringmaster to whip us into shape,? and as such, was destined to clash with faculty. And humanities professors had long simmered about Summers? perceived prejudice against the softer sciences - he had reportedly told a former humanities dean that economists were known to be smarter than sociologists, so they should be paid accordingly. The brusque handling of mild-mannered Kirby?s departure was, in the minds of many...
...Cashman case illustrates the need for independent judges who can weigh all the facts and provide a fair ruling. Sentencing decisions shouldn’t be made in the political sphere, where ideologues like O’Reilly can use misleading stories to obscure the facts and whip up the public’s bloodlust...
When sperm are swimming far away from eggs, their flagella beat steadily with sinusoidal motions. However, for fertilization to occur, the sperm need to be hyper-activated. Hyper-activated sperm swim with vigorous, whip-like motions that gives them the force they need to penetrate the protective membrane of the eggs. Prior to Kirichock and Navarro’s research, which was published in the February 9 issue of the scientific journal Nature, the cause of this hyper-activation was unknown...