Parents, though, worry about present terrors, and cold fact on its own is seldom much use in limiting boundless anxiety.
In 1970, a mysterious singer-songwriter in Detroit named Rodriguez released an album called Cold Fact, which got nice notices, but, in the words of a number of bewildered music-biz people connected with the record, did absolutely nothing.
Without this kid, the Knicks would not have gone to the playoffs this year and that is a cold hard fact.
Now, at last, the vast majority of people are waking up to that cold, hard fact.
So cold, in fact, that my laptop is struggling to wake up too.
One of the most persistent claims by CF believers is that cold fusion has, in fact, been duplicated thousands of times and that the perceived problems with reliably reproducing the results is due to subtle and poorly understood aspects of the materials used.
That fact is what led Cold Stone executives to embark on a three month tour to try and determine what the company needed to do to drive customers from their computer screens to one of the 1, 300 Cold Stone locations nationwide.
Critics carp about the budget deficits of those years, overlooking the fact that wars--even cold ones--cost money.
And the fact that Merck will appeal is cold comfort to many.
But the episode has drawn attention to the ways in which the United States, omnipotent though it may superficially seem in the post-cold-war age, is sometimes in fact quite weak.
Yes, of course, overblown hyperbole: but we are going through a cold patch, as is all of Northern Europe in fact.
Far from becoming expendable in the post-Cold War world, a strong and secure Turkey is in fact more important today than ever before.
To both Mr Johnson and Mr Khalid, the fact that hostilities have outlasted colonialism as well as the cold war, not to mention many regional reconfigurations, is proof that it has deeper roots than this season's political and economic flashpoints.
What I have left out is the cruel fact that the BMW 650i convertible came to me one of the cold, chilly weeks of this mild winter, and I was hesitant to drop the top on days of inclement weather.
He said that the findings of fact need to be a "slap in the face, a bucket of cold water" to bring Microsoft to the negotiating table.
While it may seem counterintuitive, the fact is that experts are just people who have learned the basic facts of their discipline cold enough (they have developed a level of Automaticity with basic functions) that actually makes it distracting to consciously consider these details.
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And the fact that Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people ) will appeal is cold comfort to many.
And the fact that the lack of effort involved means you have to wrap up warm - or get very cold - serves as a reminder as to how much less exercise riding an electric bike involves.
The fact is, all their scoffing and frowning notwithstanding, you know there's a side of those cold climate folks that really wants to lighten up and have fun.
Here are a few tips to shop your closet, make old things new again, and renew your excitement for getting dressed in the morning, once you have gotten past the fact that getting out of bed requires getting over the shock to the system when your feet hit the cold floor.
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