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By contrast, northern species lay larger clutches and have shorter fledging periods, and laying date is more readily predicted, making investigations of phenological shifts associated with modern climatic change more straightforward (e.g.
Increasingly complex human systems, Paulos writes, will never escape the clutches of foolish humans.
Lewinsky, slathered in makeup and dressed in what presumably is intended to represent a designer outfit, clutches a frilly cocktail and gabs away in Valley speak: "So, I'm like, yuh, and he's like, duh, and I'm like thinking about a new car."
He is in the clutches of a denominatory delirium, of a taxonomic madness.
(Lehmann-Haupt, the New York Times ). Dan Seligman writes in the Wall Street Journal that Lemann is "a dazzling writer in the clutches of a bad idea."