Word: wonder
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Another chaotic week ends, leaving Miamians to wonder how long before the white-suited men with butterfly nets come to take the mayor away...
Last year Dolly the cloned sheep was received with wonder, titters and some vague apprehension. Last week the announcement by a Chicago physicist that he is assembling a team to produce the first human clone occasioned yet another wave of Brave New World anxiety. But the scariest news of all--and largely overlooked--comes from two obscure labs, at the University of Texas and at the University of Bath. During the past four years, one group created headless mice; the other, headless tadpoles...
...wonder if I ever understood her, and if she acquired Alzheimer's deliberately to make that point. I wonder if she thinks that I have Alzheimer's because she cannot understand...
Because of that one undeniable truth, Seinfeld finds himself in the curious position of facing, at a relatively tender age (43), a sort of retirement. In this regard, you could say Jerry Seinfeld is the Bill Clinton of comedy, the boy wonder as lame duck, if only, that is, Seinfeld were more desperate to be loved. Instead, he is the same affable fellow with the slightly snarky finish that he plays on TV. "I've never had much interest in being liked," he offers. "And I think people like that. It's a relief. So many people want...
...change, the European Union, the U.S. and Japan agreed on a treaty with specific targets for each party [ENVIRONMENT, Dec. 22]. Vice President Al Gore, however, announced afterward that the agreement would not be presented to the U.S. Senate for ratification until developing countries have joined the pact. I wonder if he thinks they will participate in the treaty in a reasonable period of time. I suspect that the U.S. went to Kyoto with no intention of being serious about the agreements to be reached there. The value of the treaty will be badly undercut without substantial participation...