Word: canadas
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...bachelor party didn't appear until 1922, however, when it was first used in the Scottish publication Chambers's Journal of Literature, Science and Arts to describe a "jolly old" party. The event is known by different names in different countries: the stag party in the U.K., Ireland and Canada; the buck's party in Australia; and, with typical panache, the enterrement de vie de garçon in France (translation: "the burial of the life...
...change the course of that fate, a coalition of major health agencies from Australia, Canada, China, Britain and the U.S., which together control 80% of the world's public health-research funding, announced today the formation of the Global Alliance for Chronic Diseases (GACD). "Our focus is on reducing the burden of chronic diseases in developing countries," says Leszek Borysiewicz, the chief executive of the U.K. Medical Research Council. "It's critically important to make these interventions now." (Read how health workers are helping fight killer diseases in the developing world...
...unhappy with their private insurance options. In his much anticipated address to the AMA on Monday, Obama stressed that he does not view a public insurance option as a pathway to dismantling the private insurance industry or creating a single-payer government system like the one that exists in Canada...
...Total Eclipse of the Heart" went to No. 1 in the U.S., U.K., Australia and Canada, and it has since made it onto uncounted best-song compilations and VH1 nostalgia-fests. It's appeared in several film and television soundtracks, including an obscenity-laced version in the movie Old School. There's even a Norwegian rock band that performs the song using kitchen appliances. And now there's this...
...CANADA...