Word: absorbency
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...best way to raise taxes. Eight renegade Democrats in the house are joining with Republicans to block any increases. The budget is two months late. One Republican, state representative Cary Allred, tried to save money by raising tuition for out-of-state UNC students. "How much culture can we absorb from New Jersey? How much do we want?" he asked. Some legislators are criticizing Easley for being too tentative during the crisis, but the new Governor has clung to his priorities. He's still working to shrink class sizes. "We simply cannot, and will not, let a budget shortfall become...
...dirty details, and making it all seem - blink, blink - like a sort of dream. It's a magic trick - Muhammad Ali's old rope-a-dope adapted to the arena of scandal, a way of elegantly dancing off from the punch, while at the same time seeming to absorb the punch, to defy the punch. If we paid your exorbitant price for this memoir, you would just do the rope-a-dope again - the brief illusion of candor, the dignified drawing of the curtain, the ambient vapor of self-pity, the appeal to higher, more important issues at play, then...
...like an appendage.” This was the not-so-bright nurse’s explanation for why, after eight weeks, I still have a swollen nose. “Just like your fingers or your feet, it swells at random, like when you eat salt or absorb sunlight or spend time in humidity...
Without the right decal, deeper tints can actually make things much worse. It's normal for our eyes to widen and let in more light when we wear dark glasses. Unless the lenses are already designed to absorb ultraviolet light, the risk of damaging the eyes only grows...
...during a series of ritualized motions that Li Hongzhi invented. The central tenet is that Li himself, either personally or through his books and videotapes, inserts the Falun icon, a swastika-like Buddhist emblem surrounded by yin-yang symbols, into the bellies of believers. The emblem spins: clockwise to absorb energy, counterclockwise to emit it. The Faluns on people's bellies can heal diseases, or Li can heal diseases through the Faluns. An advanced practitioner will open a "celestial eye" in the middle of his forehead and see many spinning Falun emblems, supposedly a splendid sight. When practitioners die, they...