Word: beds
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Steven Chu, a professor of physics at Stanford University, was in bed last Wednesday morning when he learned that he had become a Nobel laureate...
...government's actions at Tiananmen Square in June 1989 insult our American sense of human rights, our definition of those rights is not the only one. An economic framing of the term places greater importance upon the right to a full stomach, a clothed body and a warm bed than the right to political expression. China is making tremendous strides toward providing these economic human rights for its people...
...words trashy, vacuous and semitalented come swiftly to mind--one certainly can't accuse her of taking herself too seriously or being coy. In her new book, Jen-X (for which she was reportedly paid more than $1 million), McCarthy confesses with unstarlike candor that she wet her bed until she was seven, spread a rumor that a girl at her school was a lesbian and peed in a guy's bed after a drunken date. Also that her breasts are fake and she dropped out of college after a petty theft. And, scariest of all, that she had crushes...
...crowds that congregated at daylight hangings. But with Texas' hectic killing schedule, a lot of folks were forced to miss a lot of sleep, so in 1995 the Texas department of criminal justice moved the time to the dinner hour, 6 p.m. Prison officials got to go to bed early, and judges did not have to be wakened with last-minute appeals...
...entitled to a piece of the action. Scott Sorochak is a 30-year-old Internet entrepreneur in San Ramon, Calif., who has been buying stocks since he was 16. His portfolio today is worth $1.8 million, and he plans to retire at age 40. "We literally go to bed every night laughing at each other over this," he says. Is he taking any chips off the table? Nothing much. "I'm still very bullish...