Word: bearer
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...appears that events may have overtaken Charlie Norwood. For more than six years, the Georgia Republican was the standard-bearer in any debate over a patients? bill of rights, pushing for an expanded right to sue negligent HMOs in state and federal court...
...fertility clinics are not the only place where embryos are routinely destroyed in the course of making a baby. Every year, in the U.S. alone, nature (or God) kills hundreds of thousands of embryos so young that the bearer didn't even know she was pregnant. About 15% of pregnancies end in miscarriage, most of them in the embryo stage. Although there is research going on to reduce miscarriages for the sake of would-be mothers, there is no big crusade to save the lives of these lost embryos...
...Shenzhen branch of the Southeast Asia Certificate Co., Liu Xingyun offers a panoply of marriage certificates, drivers' licenses and even a document certifying that the bearer has had her fallopian tubes snipped. The most popular pieces of paper are college diplomas. Last year, census-takers found 600,000 people nationwide who said they had used spurious university degrees. "No one has time to go to school anymore," says a 21-year-old impatiently waiting for a steel engraving machine to roll out an accounting degree from Peking University. "I know I'm good at math, so I might as well...
...more brutal. Over the past year, the rebels spent their ill-gotten riches on firepower: M-16s, Uzis, mortars, cannons, jeeps and the 50-seat speedboat which, with three monstrous 750- horsepower outboards, could outrun anything in the Philippine navy. The faction of Abu Sayyaf (literally "Bearer of the Sword") responsible for the raid has an unparalleled reputation for ruthlessness: when Philippine troops attacked last year, the group beheaded two hostages, including a Catholic priest, after first gouging out their eyes...
...traders better get used to it. Although three years of drought have ravished the Dhar countryside and electricity is only a recent phenomenon, the computer project, known as Gyandoot, or Bearer of Knowledge, shows that innovation can thrive among poverty and illiteracy. The $45,000 community-financed project - the brainchild of district collector Rajesh Rajora, who supervises it with Nitesh Vyas, CEO of the local government - strings together villages through a series of 34 rural cyberkiosks and links them to the district administration through an intranet. Half the users earn less than $300 a year each...