Word: wrench
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...tend to your body until the as-yet-undetermined time when technological and medical advancements allow your consciousness to be restored. But how long, you ask? Basically until when we have figured out the human organism down to its enzymatic nuts and nucleic-acid bolts, and have developed microscopic wrench-wielding robots that can overhaul your ravaged body, rendering you operational once more. The price of this trip to the future can be financed through life insurance at a monthly cost of less than you would pay for basic cable (and since Harvard has no basic cable, this might serve...
...course, you don't see a majority of the public pooh-poohing the idea of cells or atoms, and with good reason. These ideas do not mess with the way we perceive ourselves. The presence or absence of atoms does not throw a monkey wrench into our 16th-century self-concept. Scientific investigation, when not self-applied, is lauded and useful, but when it threatens to rock our pedestal, well, it is all just "theories" anyway. We accept the fruits of science and rational, empirical exploration of the physical world without embracing these precepts in our bones, without having...
...were peaceful people who had been forced into violence because of injustices they had faced from India. But those boys are now gone: surrendered, jailed or killed, or fled to Pakistan. Now the war is being managed by mysterious mehmans, or guests from distant and violent places, determined to wrench Muslim land from the hold of Hindus. They call this a religious war. A jihad...
...crowd went wild for "Monkey Wrench," a pop-rage ballad off the band's second album which showcases Grohl's seemingly inhuman ability to scream without tearing his vocal chords. Even on the band's slower, softer songs like the beautifully intricate "Aurora," Grohl couldn't resist pumping up the pace and the volume. Indeed, the only time Grohl stopped slashing at his guitar, he lambasted the British press for publishing rumors of the Foo Fighters' eminent breakup and for comparing them to the constantly troubled Brit-rockers Oasis. Though there was no tension immediately apparent onstage, Grohl's insistence...
...wrench is thrown into the works when brother Alec pays a visit from Columbia school of journalism. Full of righteous indignation at his family's assimilation, he tells them to shape up or ship out. Astonishingly enough, the United States government has just made Harry an offer to rat out Alec's African National Congress friends in exchange for a cushy job in the Netherlands. Harry has a dilemma: he knows South Africa is tearing his family apart, but his only way out is to abuse Alec's trust...