Word: boils
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...than medicine, he said. In Rwanda, casserole pots, water jugs, and kerosene stoves were the keys to ensuring that mothers would not breast-feed their children—and thus heighten their children’s risk of contracting AIDS. By providing mothers with these items so they could boil water for baby formula, Farmer said, 104 out of 105 children avoided contracting the infection. Making this kind of success a reality required a degree of flexibility, Farmer said. At first, he said, competition with other aid agencies interfered with the process of actually helping the children. He said Partners...
...riots were brief but intense, featuring an unprecedented level of gun violence. And even as the fires died down, the underlying problems continued to boil. In the nation's poorest banlieues, where the residents are mostly black and Arab, jobless rates often near 40%. And Sarkozy has long been known as "the most hated man in the projects"--a reputation he earned before the last rioting, in 2005, when the then Interior Minister used racially charged language to denounce suburban thuggery...
...heat of this summer day in 1935 that brings emotions to a boil; it's the erotic humidity. Two sisters in an upper-class English family are about to have their lives changed: lovely Cecilia (Knightley), by surrendering to a long-simmering attraction to the housekeeper's son (McAvoy); and 13-year-old Briony (Ronan), by catching them in the act of first love. Briony is intellectually precocious, sexually naive. The inferences she makes from what she's seen--and the vengeful uses she puts them to--open wounds that will take decades to heal...
...reasons for not going green usually boil down to one, so elegantly put by a frog who had no choice in the matter: It's not easy being green. It's easier to toss the leftovers into the 13-gal. (50 L) Hefty bag than figure out how to use the compost bin that sits just outside. It's easier to drive to the grocery store than to plant my own vegetable garden. It's easier to keep my job writing for a magazine that prints 3.25 million copies a week than it is to start over...
Fang was bemused by such talk. A Stanford man who joined the board for the first time this year, he said there is no reason to think that China's economy will soon boil over simply because it's growing at about 8% to 9% a year. Japan, he pointed out, averaged a growth rate of about 10% for 25 years during its big developmental leap starting in the 1950s. China's inflation is relatively low, and a huge surplus of workers in China keeps the labor market humming--and cheap. The starting salary of an average Chinese college graduate...