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(On another interesting tangent, Wolff asked me whether there's something inherently corrupt about a system where the proceeds from state lotteries are used to fund school systems that then have an incentive to produce the kind of students who will go out and play the lottery.)
Wacky Tangent of the Week: Washington Week in Review host Ken Bode scolded the New York Times Magazine for a Nov. 9 fashion spread he said endorsed the now-discredited fashion trend of "heroin chic."
where γ is the contractile force, R f is the radius of the furrow, S c is the stiffness of the cell cortex and Θ is the angle between the tangent to the cortex at the base of the furrow and the cleavage plane (Figure 4C).
Apossibly fruitful tangent would be to explore the relationship between hypeness and other terms that calibrate degrees of public recognition.