Word: barkings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Bark Worse Than Bulldogs Bite
...more doctors learn about aspirin, the more impressed they are with what it can do. Not only does this cheap, century-old drug (derived originally from the bark of the willow tree) relieve pain and ward off heart attacks, but now there is also strong evidence that it is one of the few compounds that offer real protection against colon cancer, the second leading cause of death from cancer in the U.S. The results of two studies published in last week's New England Journal of Medicine clearly show that taking aspirin every day--in low or high doses--reduces...
Prahok, a salted, fermented fish paste, is the main ingredient in Khmer cooking, lending its pungent and musky taste to nearly every dish. Its strong aroma permeates the room at Floating Rock, but prahok’s bark is worse than its bite; the smell and taste is familiar to anyone who’s eaten the fish sauce-laden cuisines of Thailand and Vietnam. Much like these cuisines, Cambodian food uses an abundance of aromatic herbs for vibrant flavor, fresh chiles for heat and spices for complexity. Dishes are often augmented with a pinch of sugar, supplying a characteristic...
...they're suffering from worse things than outsiders' disdain. The area's 500-plus orphans know why the choristers wrote Iwe AIDS: "You killed my father, you killed my mother ... I remain all alone." Dry, cracked streambeds are evidence of the unbroken drought. Some villagers are eating tree bark. More than 150,000 in the Matabeleland North province rely on foreign food aid. Here, as elsewhere, hardship is linked to politics. In the 2000 parliamentary elections, the mdc swept all eight seats in the province, its rural heartland. Last year, 61% of Matabeleland North voters chose Tsvangirai over Mugabe...
...beyond merely playing games," says Hideshi Takesada, deputy director of Japan's National Institute for Defense Studies. "Gradually, people are beginning to realize that missiles might soon be flying over their heads." If that happens, all anyone can do is hope the starving wolf of North Korea has a bark worse than its bite...