Word: armfuls
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...York branch of the family began two generations after the Utah Frys - the founding parents of the East Coast arm having been born just as the Frys' Utah pioneers were settling in the West. So far, researchers have studied some 200 of the Fry family's New York descendants and identified about 50 with the genetic mutation. Family members actually have a very low risk of inheriting the genetic mutation - about 1 in 8,000 - but those who do have it run a 69% risk of developing colon cancer by age 80, if they don't seek proper clinical care...
...block "down," of course, is Managua code for "one block west." Sometimes going "down," then, actually means going uphill. To further confuse things, directions are given in a unit of measurement known as a vara, which is apparently based on the arm length of a former nobleman from some time and some place in the distant past...
Duma Key, his first novel set in Florida, inevitably followed. Named after a fictional reef, it concerns Edgar Freemantle, a wealthy man who loses his right arm in a construction accident and moves to a lonely island that seems to grant him the power to paint surreal, sometimes premonitory images. At its core, the book is about creativity and its relationship to physical and mental healing?King's continuing attempt to address his own mortality years after his near death...
...Since December, on its own turf, Moscow has fought with the British Council (BC) - Britain's cultural and educational cooperation arm. The conflict now threatens to grow into a full-scale diplomatic war between Russia and Britain with potentially dire consequences...
From the pack of assembled media that were waiting for him, to the protective arm of his bodyguards, Guy Hands must have come over all rock 'n' roll when he pitched up for a meeting with staff at his record company EMI on Tuesday. Hands, though, isn't an artist. His singing career hasn't gone beyond karaoke. And instead of cutting records with EMI - one of the world's leading music companies, and a home to musicians from Lily Allen to Coldplay via The Rolling Stones - he's more in the game of cutting costs...