[00:05]bolt

[00:08]Doctorow lets light and air into these musty chambers.

[00:13]He has his hermits variously buffeted and seduced by outside forces.

[00:19]The doors are bolted and the windows are shuttered,

[00:23]but the 20th century crawls in through the cracks.

[00:30]bald

[00:32]He wore a ski cap on the top of his bald head for that practice.

[00:37]When I asked him why he needed the hat when he was otherwise dressed for summer,

[00:43]McKittrick went on with a breakdown of how research proved that

[00:48]the odds of catching a cold are reduced tremendously merely by putting on a hat.

[00:57]ban

[01:00]NBAC plans to call for a continued ban on federal government funding for

[01:08]any attempt to clone body cell nuclei to create a child.

[01:15]band

[01:18]The outcome may not much matter to the wildly successful band,

[01:23]but it could have implications for the extent to which other groups

[01:28]decide to imitate the pay-what-you-want system

[01:35]bandage

[01:38]Obama's coolness is itself reassuring. He's not in a froth of panic

[01:44]and I don't need to be. It's like a doctor looking at your bleeding hand

[01:50]and just doing what works to bandage it without hysterics,

[01:54]without clucking his tongue, without a hint of anxiety.

[02:02]barrel

[02:05]The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that,

[02:10]if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year,

[02:16]compared with $13 in 1998, this would increase the oil import bill

[02:25]in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP.

[02:35]vanish

[02:36]A third of the plant and animal species could vanish

[02:41]if the polar ice melted and sea levels rose.

[02:49]vanish

[02:51]A: We are getting old, honey.

[02:53]B: Yeah, days are vanishing so quickly.