Word: blossoms
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...majority of French people support legalizing euthanasia in some cases, according to polls. Almost everyone wants to wipe away the legal ambiguity that haunts doctors now. But no one is quite sure how. The day he died, Humbert predicted in his book, would be like the day a flower blossom finally opens its petals to the sky. On the third anniversary of his accident, his mother, Marie Humbert, sat beside his hospital bed as she always had. Then she injected him with a cocktail of barbiturates. "I did it," she told a doctor, according to the French newspaper...
...Gienapp was so bright but yet so modest about his knowledge,” said McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History Steven Ozment. “At times he would blossom and become the most witty person you could ever talk...
...slim volumes ($55 for a set of eight, covering 35 European destinations) are tailored to slip discreetly into one of those famously monogrammed handbags. Apart from listing the finest hotel, dining, shopping and touring options, the books provide arcane survival tips for fastidious travelers, such as the fact that Blossom & Browne's Sycamore Laundry in London uses "softened water to protect your Pradas." But not all the attractions have five-star ratings. Flea markets happily coexist with big-name boutiques in the shop listings, and the reviews of the usual destinations?Paris, Rome, Madrid?are joined by shorter takes...
...slim volumes ($55 for a set of eight, covering 35 European destinations) are tailored to slip discreetly into one of those famously monogrammed handbags. Apart from listing the finest hotel, dining, shopping and touring options, the books provide arcane survival tips for fastidious travelers, such as the fact that Blossom & Browne's Sycamore Laundry in London uses "softened water to protect your Pradas." But not all the attractions have five-star ratings. Flea markets happily coexist with big-name boutiques in the shop listings, and the reviews of the usual destinations - Paris, Rome, Madrid - are joined by shorter takes...
...first glance, few would have expected this democratization of fashion to blossom in a nation famed for buying sprees that hurtled every citizen toward stylistic conformity. After all, who can forget the Japanese tourists who thronged exclusive boutiques in Paris or Milan, all loading up on exactly the same must-have purse or belt? Or the platinum-haired, deeply tanned kogyaru look that painted Tokyo teens like a badly conceived Hawaiian Tropic advertisement? But Japan today boasts a diversity of expression unmatched anywhere in Asia. Years of recession have galvanized a generation of faceless students, salarymen and office ladies...