Word: blowingly
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...show is an unsettling weave of smart-ass wit and surreal situations from the age of terror. A joke involving communion and oral sex shares a platform with the calculation that al-Qaeda would have to blow up 580 planes a year to compete with the tobacco industry for casualties. This month, an audio version of the show, which has shocked Christian conservatives and delighted fans from Edinburgh to Lahore, was launched on iTunes. E-audiences might miss the comedian's crown of thorns and Gitmo-orange jumpsuit, but that's not dire, as the show, he says...
...rivals loyal to President Mahmoud Abbas - at least 30 other patients seeking urgent medical help were denied passage by Shin Bet because they refused to act as informers. In the past, most collaborators worked from within Fatah, and when they were chased from Gaza last June, it was a blow to Israeli intelligence...
...Massachusetts’ fund for paying for uninsured patients—the Health Safety Net Trust Fund—provides a fixed payment to all the hospitals based on the level of free care the hospital is expected to provide. But an unexpectedly large number of uninsured patients can blow a hole in hospitals’ books if the payment from the trust was assessed at a lower rate. Boudrow said that funding from the trust has not been adequate for the CHA—the fund’s second largest recipient, behind the Boston Medical Center. Boudrow said...
...skepticism" about D.C.'s gun laws, "there certainly did not appear to be a majority for establishing a constitutional standard that would call into question the validity of gun control laws across the board." The district's gun ban is certainly under fire. Whether it will suffer a fatal blow or a flesh wound remains to be seen...
...Robert Baer, a former CIA field officer assigned to the Middle East, is TIME.com's intelligence columnist and the author of See No Evil and, most recently, the novel Blow the House Down