"With a heart rate of 1,000 beats a minute, the tiny hummingbird should be riddled with rogue free radicals [the oxygen-based chemicals that basically make mammals old by gradually destroying DNA, proteins and fat molecules]... but it's not," says zoologist Jules Howard, author of Death on Earth: Adventures in Evolution and Mortality.
Machida landed a clean quad-double combination and followed with a triple axel-triple toe loop to race past the early leader, Maxim Kovtun, who had an error-riddled free skate.
There was the moment General Manager Jerry Reese spawned eye-rolling when, at the nadir of an injury-riddled, free-agent-defection-laced training camp, he declared the Giants would get into the playoffs and make a run.
After thousands of years of philosophy, theology, argument and meditation on the riddle of free will, I'm not about to solve it for you in this column (sorry).
"I think it's very difficult to have a vibrant society in the free enterprise sector that is riddled with massive lawsuits all the time".
Naughty America Express doesn't have the recurring fees of a subscription, and while it may cost a couple of dollars, it isn't riddled with the advertisements and popups that plague free sites (or so I'm told).
China's planet-sized economy is not issue-free, and the financial industry is riddled with inefficiencies.
Poorly controlled inflammation, he notes, "occurs not in people living in third-world countries, riddled with infections, but rather in rich, infection-free, urbanized populations".
The avalanche struck a passage called the Khumbu Icefall, which is riddled with crevasses and ice boulders that can break free without warning.
Although she is entirely free of osteoporosis, the doctors told her she was riddled with arthritis.
It has happened before: the fairly free world economy of the late 19th century was riddled with protectionism by the 1930s.
