Word: bearings
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...collage of Drew Faust’s face on the back. She collects items haphazardly, but balks when she realizes that the clothes weigh more than 20 pounds. Ex-nay on the ironic collage. Hays eventually leaves with an assortment of black clothing and a large white teddy bear. She intends to cut off its feet and use them to elevate the shoulders of the dress. “It’s the idea of ‘metropolis’ being a Greek paradigm—I’m making Grecian-inspired clothing with rigidly structured aspects...
...every way" and slamming its "greater and greater disdain" for international law. Enraged by U.S. moves to station a missile defense system on his doorstep, Putin withdrew Russia from a Cold War-era treaty governing the size of conventional military forces in Europe, and ordered its old turbo-prop Bear bombers out of mothballs to fly nuclear patrols along old Cold War frontiers. Last week in Russia, he made the U.S. Secretaries of State and Defense wait 45 minutes for him before delivering them a tongue-lashing over the missile defense plan. Another jab follows on Tuesday, when Putin becomes...
...deeds.” The lobby, on the other hand, seems to insist on the media’s almost unconditional approval for and support of Israel’s actions.Of course, Mearsheimer and Walt’s arguments about the lobby’s domination of public discourse bear striking similarities to conspiratorial claims that Jews “control the media.” The two are careful to point out, however, that the Israel lobby is not a “cabal” of powerful individuals that connives in secret, but rather “just...
...they're not in it for the thrill of the kill, poachers are often bent on making some money. Bighorn-sheep horns, for example, can bring up to $60,000 on the U.S. black market; a large, balanced set of elk antlers, $10,000. In Japan, black bear gallbladders, treasured as an aphrodisiac, are literally worth their weight in gold. The illegal reptile, amphibian and snake markets in Southern California and Florida have been growing as well because of heightened collector demand in Asia...
Back in White Haven, Teddy was probably too large for his assassin to cart off or butcher on the spot, which rubs restaurant manager Lisa Fisher raw. "[The poacher] was on our property when he killed that bear," she huffs. "Teddy never bothered anyone. He'd make a mess; we'd clean it up. Our customers just loved...