Word: boastfulness
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Sweet potatoes One potato has nearly zero fat and only 120 calories--just don't douse it with butter. Sweet potatoes also boast cancer-fighting carotenoids and contain about half the vitamin C of oranges...
Brussels sprouts These little cabbage heads boast big-time benefits. An excellent source of vegetable fiber, they also contain vitamin C, iron and the B vitamin folate, which may lower the risk of heart disease and, according to the latest research, Alzheimer's. Sprouts also contain cancer-fighting chemicals called indoles. If you insist on greasing up the sprouts, substitute olive...
...Even the proudest patriot will admit that India's boast of being a bastion of live-and-let-live harmony has always been something of a lie. Muslim frustration at discrimination and Hindu resentment of governmental assistance to minorities explode every few years in violence. But as the March riots raged on for weeks in Gujarat, they provoked particular alarm. While human-rights groups demanded Modi be tried for genocide, Hindu political parties, cultural groups and hordes of street demonstrators celebrated him as India's great defender. From a political nobody, Modi was catapulted into the international limelight...
...publicize his poem about a Palestinian child who, he alleges, was “gunned down by the Zionist SS” (the boy in question was probably killed by a Palestinian bullet and mendaciously turned into a poster-child of the Intifada). Paulin was free to to boast, “I never believed that Israel had the right to exist at all,” to advertise his sympathies for suicide bombers, to encourage terrorism, and even to incite to murder. The British government guaranteed his freedom of speech; the American government guarantees it while...
...MALAYSIA: Meeting point Malaysia can justifiably boast that it's ahead of the pack when it comes to cracking down on Islamic militancy. A month before the Sept. 11 attacks, police began making arrests, to date rounding up some 63 alleged terrorist wannabes. But while there's no doubt that Kuala Lumpur is now committed to crushing militancy within its borders, it is Malaysia's dirty little secret that years of turning a blind eye to the activities of radical clerics like alleged Jemaah Islamiah head Abubakar Ba'asyir allowed Islamic radicalism to put down deep roots in the Malaysian...