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"Instead of the annual bloodletting, otherwise known as the Big Ten/ACC Challenge, maybe a Big Ten/MEAC Challenge would help bolster the ego"
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"We'd like to remind our American tourist friends that you are almost certainly talking too loud."
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Example 1 in the class on "How Not to Write a Useful Headline for a Press Release." The actual paper is about geology, but you have to click through to see it.
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Venus Express sees evidence that runaway greenhouse heating is to blame for the Venusian climate.
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Astronomers spot the earliest galaxies formed, while looking for something else entirely.
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A seasonal celebration that has to be heard to be believed.
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A crucial question of orthography
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A links dump including a lot of good writer's strike material.
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"The Life, Times, and Misadventures of Dennis St. Michel, Viscount of Stokington, Soldier, Gambler, Diplomat, Scoundrel, Notorious Rakehell, and Lord of Menacing House, in his Own Words." You probably need to read the Comics Curmudgeon to find this funny.
