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jazzfishRace-Blind Admissions in Fairfax County: "If students aren't performing to their potential, then perhaps we should hold accountable those people whose responsibility it is to run the school system and ensure that students perform to their potential, free of racist impediments. Oh, wait. That would be [Superintendent] Domenech and [ex-Chairman] Castro."
Mount Rainier called a threat: "Rainier, which has more glacier ice on it than all the other 12 Cascade volcanoes combined, is the only mountain in the contiguous United States where regional roads are marked with large white arrows and signs that say, 'Volcano Evacuation Route.'"
Unboilable bug points to hotter origin of life: "With this organism we kept ratcheting up the temperature and it just kept surviving until, basically in desperation we put it in an autoclave, which is supposed to kill all living organisms."
The New Diamond Age: "He admits to staying up almost all night scrutinizing the stones. 'I think I can identify it,' he says hopefully." --take that, De Beers!
Survived Wunderland.earth, the Smithsonian, Cayugacon, and adventures in bedding. Real update later.
Mount Rainier called a threat: "Rainier, which has more glacier ice on it than all the other 12 Cascade volcanoes combined, is the only mountain in the contiguous United States where regional roads are marked with large white arrows and signs that say, 'Volcano Evacuation Route.'"
Unboilable bug points to hotter origin of life: "With this organism we kept ratcheting up the temperature and it just kept surviving until, basically in desperation we put it in an autoclave, which is supposed to kill all living organisms."
The New Diamond Age: "He admits to staying up almost all night scrutinizing the stones. 'I think I can identify it,' he says hopefully." --take that, De Beers!
Survived Wunderland.earth, the Smithsonian, Cayugacon, and adventures in bedding. Real update later.
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Date: 2003-08-19 07:17 pm (UTC)"Not only did Strain 121 survive such autoclaving, its population doubled in 24 hours at such heat and pressure. "