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"Our legal services are already stretched to the breaking point," Schmitt said. "
In his discussion of one historic work--Jean Buchon's comparison of American rivers in his 1825 Atlas Geographique --Tufte notes how the depictions of the Mississippi and the Amazon must curl around the page, since there's no room to show them stretched out like the other rivers.
But Chatterbox finds himself wondering why this heat wave, which stretched across the Midwest, the South, and the East, killed so many people in Chicago , a city in a relatively northern latitude that is reputed to be Windy and situated on a very big lake.
By contrast, Nefertiti, the wife of Akhenaton, seems to have had her cranium artificially stretched for beauty's sake.
The budgets of many news organizations, the paper explains, have been stretched thin by travels with Clinton.