TURNBERRY, Scotland — In this seeing-is-believing British Open, in which the ocean air has transformed a long-ago champion into a present-day leader, there is another strange possibility lurking.
The discovery of dark energy has forced scientists to consider another strange possibility.
And so we have a strange possibility here -- Russia and Syria may team up on "pretending to comply with a plan to dispose of chemical weapons" that looks on the surface like they are just sticking it to America and having a good laugh.
But those are just two of the strange possibilities raised by researchers working in the intriguing experimental no man's land between the two materials.In the past few weeks, researchers at Rice University in Houston, Texas, and Pennsylvania State University have been making transparent metals using a new technique borrowed from the fast-moving field of "mesoporous" solids.
Plenty, no doubt, there have been more perilous, exciting, or catastrophic, but was there ever one so unlooked for, so full of strange possibilities, so anomalous superficially and, at bottom, so perfectly illustrating at once the genius of our people and the spirit of the Constitution?
But with the basic ratings so out-of-whack, the two curves together suggest some strange possibilities for the female thought process, the most salient of which is that the average-looking woman has convinced herself that the vast majority of males aren't good enough for her, but she then goes right out and messages them anyway".
Indicating how opinion had swung against IVF, a grave editorial in The Times also stated that human embryos 'ought not to be regarded as dispensable matter', and called for an urgent debate on 'which of the many strange possibilities now opening up are acceptable, which need controls, and which are unacceptable' (Anon, 1982b).
By Joseph Langland The New Yorker, August 30 , 1969P. 32 Then gathering in the dusk, comes the strange long possibility of loneliness.
Elegiac to awe-inspired, Mr. Smith's catalog remains honest to all the strange, beautiful possibilities of humanity.
It was Collins who introduced to the English novel this strangest of possibilities: that a person might not know what they know – might not even know what they have done.
The "strange and awesome" possibility of America might be found, then, in its openness to the hustling spirit — to Talde's flair for inauthentic, upmarket versions of traditional recipes, which self-consciously echo the way his mom, like many of her generation, mastered the possibilities contained in a brick of Spam.
