Word: ax
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...green lawn in front of the old mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans - in just one collection point of the city, the authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Eighty kilometers south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. To the south...
...DOMINO IS tipping at Yale, where a faculty committee has moved to "accelerate" its review of the college's admissions program, the YDN observes. The school faces pressure to ax its non-binding, early-action program after Harvard did so earlier this month. Princeton followed suit, dropping its binding, early-decision program a week later. Yale President Richard Levin won't say what the committee will decide, but will say how often they'll meet: "more or less monthly." Only in higher education can that be considered accelerated...
...lobbyist by slaughter proponents. "Somebody is putting money into this for a lobbyist to be on it," says Pickens. He warned Barton that people were getting worked up over the issue. "I told him when you get women like my wife and Paula Bacon involved, you give ?em an ax and they'll do some chopping." So Barton called a hearing Tuesday before a House of Representatives Energy & Commerce subcommittee. (A commerce subcommittee since proponents contend that banning horse slaughtering for food sales violates commerce laws.) The House Majority leader, John Boehner, has said the House will vote...
Farewell to FEMA? Another hit to the disaster agency The Senate voted last week to replace the Federal Emergency Management Agency with a new disaster-relief office. But the House wants to reform, not ax, FEMA--which means it may live to see another hurricane season...
Strong sales are the only measure of success that really matter for any of the new dishes that will soon appear on the menu. The lasagna got the ax, but the Bolognese sauce with white truffle oil will get a shot as a pasta entrée, along with a spinach, poached-chicken and bacon salad, a crab hash made with potatoes and onions and the pasta with four roasted tomato sauces--including puttanesca without anchovies. If they don't sell, they're gone, no matter how much Overton or any critic loves or loathes them...