Word: bounds
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...early December, weeks before Abdulmutallab's abortive attempt to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner on Dec. 25, the mood on a cross-country bus was friendly. At a rest stop on the road from the capital, Sana'a, to the city of Taiz, a bubbly fellow passenger named Habiba leaned over, lifted her veil and invited me - a stranger - to her village to attend her nephew's wedding. Of course, she added with a comforting pat on the shoulder, "not that al-Qaeda...
...adapters of the Salinger oeuvre are out of luck. "If he says that he doesn't want a revised work, or a secondary work or a derivative work, or he doesn't want anything related to Catcher in the Rye licensed, then whoever is managing his estate would be bound by that, " says Jon Tandler, a publishing lawyer in Denver. "He can say, 'Thou shall not create a sequel...
...Russia and China, voted to shut it down in 2009. The U.S government's offer to pay much higher rent meant that the base (now officially called a Transit Center in deference to local sensibilities) survived the threat of closure. It remains today as an embarkation point for troops bound for Afghanistan, and a reminder of the Great Game in which Kyrgyzstan is ensnared. (See 25 (more) authentic Asian experiences...
...rise to prominence hit a speed bump at the NHL Combine where his intention to play for Harvard proved to be a disadvantage. The NCAA 48-hour rule meant that he had to complete the entire process of interviews and testing in two days while prospects not bound for college had more time...
...past 14 years. Some of this work formed part of his excellent 2005 book Hong Kong: Front Door/Back Door, which focused on the surreal traces of city dwellers in eerily depopulated urban frames. It is a subject to which he now returns in the two-volume, slipcase-bound Hong Kong Inside Outside. (See pictures of Hong Kong...