Word: acidly
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...case, “the ultimate acid test of the system,” according to Tustin, “is how many freshmen at Harvard go on to become sophomores...
Taurine: an amino acid found in nerve tissue, bile and the juices of muscle, especially in invertebrates. The taurine in drinks is synthetic and aids in the production of neurotransmitters. (All drinks and baby formula...
Around the Islamic world, women are scoring other victories, small and large. Iran's parliament recently compromised with conservative clerics to allow a single young woman to study abroad, albeit with her father's permission. Bangladesh passed legislation increasing the punishments for crimes against women, including rape, kidnapping and acid attacks. Egypt has banned female circumcision and made it easier for women to sue for divorce. In Qatar women have the right to participate in municipal elections and are promised the same rights in first-ever parliamentary balloting scheduled to take place by 2003. Bahrain has assured women voters...
...find that the veil liberates them from unwanted gazes and hassles from men. But many Muslim women feel cultural and family pressure to cover themselves. Recently a Muslim fundamentalist group in the Indian province of Kashmir demanded that women start wearing veils. When the call was ignored, hooligans threw acid in the faces of uncovered women...
...acclaimed first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which later became an Oscar-winning film. In 1964 he traveled cross-country in a psychedelic bus with a group of hippie pals called the Merry Pranksters. The trip, immortalized by Tom Wolfe in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, helped establish the antiestablishment in the public imagination. "I like to stir things up," Kesey once said. "I'm the Minister of Misinformation...