Word: backyarders
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...have tried browsing your local drugstore shelf for a box of Sudafed to clear up those autumn sniffles, you may have discovered that it's MIA. One of its active ingredients is pseudoephedrine, widely used in backyard labs to make methamphetamine. Several states had already ordered pseudoephedrine off pharmacy shelves, but in October the Federal Government expanded those rules and put them into effect across the country. Now allergy suffers looking for relief have to ask a pharmacist or salesclerk for their Sudafed, show photo ID and sign a logbook. Unfortunately, the most common alternative, phenylephrine, isn't as effective...
...that you can feel as you sit amongst the oldest of alumni and undergraduates past and present. But there’s a contingency behind all those claims that I didn’t realize existed until I saw Yale completely pummel Harvard by 21 points right in our backyard...
...think this will lead us to really unpleasant conclusions as to how we see the world as a sort of backyard of the United States,” Laiou said...
...take out uncovered meat and place it outside on the street or in the garden or in the park or in the backyard without a cover, and the cats come and eat it, whose fault is it--the cats' or the uncovered meat?" SHEIK TAJ ALDIN AL HILALI, Muslim cleric in Australia, implying in a sermon that it would be the fault of an unveiled woman if she was raped because her lack of a covering would tempt...
...China doesn't like being told what to do in its own backyard by the United States. But neither its leaders in Beijing nor the ordinary working people of Dandong hide their frustration with the North Koreans. Squatting by the side of the road and smoking a cigarette, a young Chinese man clears his throat and spits. "Those stupid bastards, look how far they are behind us." He gestures to the other side of the river where the trucks crossing the bridge disappear into a solid wall of night, the electricity-starved North Korean town bathed in blackness. The flashily...