Noted & quoted.'I want to fight in a war like World War II. I want to fight an enemy. And this, out here ... it's a faceless enemy.' * SERGEANT CHRISTOPHER DUGGER on fighting insurgents Insurgents, in U.S. history, the Republican Senators and Representatives who in 1909–10 rose against the Republican standpatters controlling Congress, to oppose the Payne-Aldrich tariff and the dictatorial power of House speaker Joseph G. Cannon. in Iraq. (The Washington Post) 'SAT scores are way down this year, the sharpest decline in 31 years. The good news is, video-game scores are way up.' * JAY LENO of The Tonight Show on the recent nationwide dip in SAT scores. The class of 2006 was the first to take the revamped test with the new essay-writing section. (The New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times) 'The last thing you want is for the guy who says things are safe to be killed.' * LEO SMITH, an expert on venomous fish, on the death of "Crocodile Hunter" Steve Irwin, who was killed last month by a stingray stingray: see ray. stingray or whip-tailed ray Any of various species (family Dasyatidae) of rays noted for their slender, whiplike tail with barbed, usually venomous spines. white filming at the Great Barrier Reef Great Barrier Reef, largest complex of coral reef in the world, c.1,250 mi (2,000 km) long, in the Coral Sea, forming a natural breakwater for the coast of Queensland, NE Australia. off Australia's northeast coast. (The New York Times) |
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