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THE TWENTY “WHITEST” BOY NAMES Jake Connor Tanner Wyatt Cody Dustin Luke Jack Scott Logan Cole Lucas Bradley Jacob Garrett Dylan Maxwell Hunter Brett Colin
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Steven D. Levitt (Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything)
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Six turns.” A more superstitious man might have taken that for a bad omen. Tanner only considered himself half-superstitious. He didn’t believe in the good ones.
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Scott Warren (Devilbone (The Sorcerous Crimes Division #1))
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A chill wind tugged at Tekagi’s black veil and midnight tresses. Her false fingernails, curved metal claws edged with black diamonds snared the fine mesh. The cloth ripped beneath her scalpel strokes when she flexed her fingers.
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Wendy Scott (Tiger House (The Chronicles of Jairus Tanner #1))
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Crap!” He couldn’t remember anything.
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Wendy Scott (Tiger House (The Chronicles of Jairus Tanner #1))
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Hair so black it shone blue streamed to her knees, each strand straighter than a soldier’s back. Her age was impossible to gauge beneath the white powder which smoothed her face into a mask. Rouge slashed her cheeks, blood-red ink outlined her lips, and kohl shadowed her almond-shaped eyes. Sapphire powder glittered across her eyelids up to her eyebrows but her eyes were black pits that offered no reassurance.
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Wendy Scott (Tiger House (The Chronicles of Jairus Tanner #1))
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Tekagi hid a yawn behind her fan. Finally, the last platitudes were spoken over Emperor Oranjun’s corpse. She wasn’t fooled. The Ten did not mourn her father or his two oldest sons.
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Wendy Scott (Tiger House (The Chronicles of Jairus Tanner #1))
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Every noble stared at the scepter’s diamond dragon head. Foolish men from minor houses wet their lips, wearing their ambition for all to see. Tekagi wanted to spit on them. They were not worthy wielders of this coveted prize. The old man’s hands quivered when he lifted up the scepter and touched the dragon head against the dead emperor’s forehead.
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Wendy Scott (Tiger House (The Chronicles of Jairus Tanner #1))
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As Stanford University’s Ioannidis, University of Sydney’s Cripps, and Northwestern’s Tanner documented in August 2020, forecasts built directly on significant data at hand also fared poorly. As one example, a Massachusetts General Hospital model predicted over 23,000 deaths within a month of Georgia’s reopening—the actual deaths were 896.
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Scott W. Atlas (A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America)
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In their August 2020 review of several models, Ioannidis, Cripps, and Tanner lamented what other leaders in the field had similarly expressed, “In fact, it is surprising that epidemic forecasting has retained much credibility among decision-makers, given its dubious track record.
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Scott W. Atlas (A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID from Destroying America)