Word: wildes
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First-time authors dream of theirwork flying off the shelves--but not like this. One moment, Kaavya Viswanathan was a literary marvel, a Harvard sophomore with a reported $500,000 two-book deal and a highly touted chick-lit novel, How Opal Mehta Got Kissed, Got Wild, and Got a Life. The next, her publisher, Little, Brown, was recalling every copy of Opal from the shelves, like so many tins of bad salmon. The defect? Viswanathan, 19, had plagiarized dozens of passages from two young-adult novels by Megan McCafferty...
...succumb to a pandemic. Nonsense! One doesn't need to believe in unobservable and unrepeatable macroevolution to have a working knowledge of genetics. Creationists and proponents of intelligent design are quite at home with the concepts of Mendelian variation within species and natural selection. They simply object to wild extrapolations beyond observable limits of genetic variability. Don't hide behind the cloak of science when it's clear that you're an evolution evangelist...
RELEASED. Xiang Xiang, 4, 176-lb. giant panda; into the wild, marking the first time a member of this endangered species has been bred in captivity and freed; in a forest in Sichuan province, China, as bamboo shoots, the animal's favorite food, were starting to sprout. Officials at Wolong Giant Panda Research Center will monitor Xiang Xiang with a satellite tracking system...
...Green pushed across four unearned runs on two hits against an uncharacteristically wild Cole, who walked four before being relieved by Jason Brown in the top of the first. The junior submariner then struck out his first batter swinging on the way to 5 and two thirds gutsy, bullpen-saving innings...
...their three or four guy, and I saw us pepper Faiola around…they might be thinking a little bit.”Harvard, however, lagged behind from the beginning. The Big Green pushed across four unearned runs on two hits against an uncharacteristically wild Cole, who walked four before being relieved by Jason Brown in the top of the first. The junior submariner then struck out his first batter swinging on the way to 5 2/3 gutsy, bullpen-saving innings.Brown, notably, would give up eight runs, but only three of them earned. “When...