Word: afternoon
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...only takes Andrew an afternoon to befriend a like-minded, co-op-dwelling bisexual (played by the multitasking Shelton), who invites him over for an evening of drugs, dancing and experimental thinking, if not actions. Andrew persuades Ben to drop by to meet his new friend. "It's a little weird," Ben tells Anna on the phone, promising he'll be home in time for dinner. "The place is called Dionysus, and they aren't kidding." Wanting to please both friend and wife, he's torn. In the end, the desire to be as hip as he believed himself...
Traffic lights suddenly went black in Hamburg, Germany's biggest port, on Saturday afternoon after a nearby nuclear reactor called Krümmel shut down when a transformer short-circuited. Although nobody was hurt and the lights were back on by nightfall, the accident has reignited the debate over nuclear power in Europe's most vehemently anti-nuclear country. But as Germany gears up for federal elections in September, a generational shift in attitude could mean that opposition to nuclear power isn't the vote winner it once...
Sometime in the afternoon of July 5, agents from the Shanghai State Security Bureau - the agency that pursues cases of espionage within China - arrested and detained Stern Hu, an Australian citizen who is a senior Shanghai-based executive for Anglo-Australian mining giant Rio Tinto. Three of Hu's deputies, who are Chinese, were also detained that day. On July 8, Rio confirmed that Hu and his colleagues had been detained on suspicion of selling "state secrets." The Chinese government confirmed the detentions only on July 9, and the Australian Consulate in Shanghai said its representatives would be able...
...city in the Abruzzo region that was destroyed by a horrific earthquake on April 6—a disaster that claimed 299 lives. Since April, the city has experienced at least half a dozen tremors (some of them quite significant), including three early this Monday morning and one Monday afternoon. Only two days later, the eight most powerful leaders in the world will meet there for two days. Almost everyone in Italy is asking him/herself the exact same question: Why? Why would the eight most important people in the world get together in a place where the ground can?...
...Then, right before 11 p.m. on Monday June 22, L’Aquila had another earthquake. On Friday July 3, it happened again. And then—guess what?—early Monday morning there were four significant tremors. That afternoon there was another. Don’t worry, though, officials insisted, everything would be just fine for the G8 (which was scheduled to begin in just 48 hours). And then again on Tuesday: four more quakes...