Word: blood
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April’s voices rises with dismay. It’s more than she’d realized. Miles needs blood work too to be able to enroll in public school next year. This is going to take longer than she had hoped. “I may need to leave him a little longer at daycare today,” she sighs. The nurse leaves to prepare the shots. Mr. Miles begins demanding more stickers. Three, four, five...
...when protesters occupied the Prime Minister's office and, most notoriously, that same year when Bangkok's international airports were shut down by demonstrators in order to force Thaksin-allied Prime Ministers from office. Some believe the army refused to act because it did not want blood on its hands from saving politicians, which would revive the black stain on its reputation from May 1992, when dozens were killed. Others believe the army's inaction was intended to advance its own political interests...
...handsome carts to labor, seduce, and persecute. As a perfunctory nod to the French national motto, “liberté,” “égalité,” and “fraternité” are scrawled graffiti-like in blood-red paint on banners which loom in the rafters high above the stage...
...About the only commonality between Thailand's two factions is a shared taste for political voodoo. In mid-March, thousands of red shirts lined up to donate their blood, which was then splashed by the bucketful at the Prime Minister's office and private residence. Brahmin priests attended the bloodletting, casting hexes on the government amid swirls of incense. Such black magic, which dates back to Thailand's pre-Buddhist past, might seem like the domain of superstitious peasants. But last year, yellow-shirt leader and media mogul Sondhi Limthongkul placed sanitary napkins soaked with menstrual blood around a Bangkok...
Sodium chloride wasn't always a stealth killer. Despite a known link between sodium and high blood pressure, iodized table salt saved lives when U.S. manufacturers started producing it in 1924, adding a bulwark against iodine-deficiency-related diseases like goiter to every kitchen table. Salt consumption spiraled into a public-health problem only after World War II, when postwar prosperity buoyed appetites for restaurant meals and presalted, processed and frozen foods. Salt-free cookbooks were already appearing by the 1950s, and two decades later manufacturers dropped salt from baby food. By 1981 the FDA had launched sodium-education initiatives...