Word: bents
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...Security specialists fear that opportunistic terrorists might tap that expertise. Since 9/11, Southeast Asia has become a fertile recruiting ground for Islamic extremists bent on carrying out attacks like the October 2002 Bali bombings that killed 202 people. Though hundreds of militants have been arrested since, the regional network of Islamic extremists blamed for Bali, Jemaah Islamiah, is still capable of undertaking an assault on Western interests, as demonstrated in September by the bombing outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta that killed 11. "The increased frequency of piracy attacks, the changing pattern of how the attacks are carried out, lead...
What is more disturbing is that the ideological bent of these programs makes them inimical to safe-sex programs. On the www.days.org website, a section on birth control tries to scare adolescents away from contraception by lying—stating that “The Physician’s Desk Reference (PDR) contains a warning for every birth control pill and device: ‘Patients should be counseled that this product does not protect against HIV infection (Aids) sic or other sexually transmitted diseases.’” This is patently untrue—last time...
...audiences’ eyes grew wide at the sight before them—two barefooted women, one bent over, blowing into her soprano sax pointed down to the ground, the other with her leg brought up to her chest. Ever so slowly, the leg lowered and rested on the full length of the saxophonist’s back, in a feat expected only from a contortionist...
...Happily for Murali, in a judgment in Dubai last week, the International Cricket Council (ICC) declared that analysis of video footage showed that "99%" of all bowlers, including many cricket greats, bent their arms excessively. The investigating committee proposed that the ICC loosen the rules and allow arms to be bent up to 15 degrees. A relieved Murali told TIME: "Cricket should be a gentleman's game. Now I hope it can be again...
...campus where recent election polls have confirmed a liberal bent, Mowery may be alone. Asked if he knew fellow Keyes voters at Harvard, Mowery laughed, “I think I might be the only person of all of Harvard who voted for him. Whenever I tell anyone I voted for Alan Keyes, they go, ‘What...