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Michigan is also celebrated as the "Water Wonderland," because it has "four times as much water-covered area as any state," a curious boast, giving the impression that by the second paragraph, Dunbar is straining to find nice things to say.
Scott also has many fine qualities, and the entire Slate team looks forward to straining them to the limit.
Baffled and disoriented, we pick our way among these versions of the truth, straining for a synthesis that would permit some hope for the couple's future.
In Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald , noting that the commitment of "a mere 2,000 troops" to East Timor is already seriously straining the country's defense budget, called for a large increase in its defense capability.
Some of the saddest aspects of the 9/11 story are the outstanding efforts of so many individual officials straining, often without success, against the boundaries of the possible.