Word: carly
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...back to the Mennonite community? Well, I had a sort of critical year, a crisis year. My husband of 15 years announced one day that he was leaving me for a guy named Bob, whom he had met on Gay.com. Then, six days later, I was in a car accident. I was a mess, really, so I went to the only place I could figure out to go that wouldn't cost much, and that was home to the Mennonites...
...give rise to these physical phenomena. For example, Americans drive so much not because driving is an inevitable aspect of human life, but because our particular market system prices oil a certain way, because our government favors highways over mass transit, because we inhabit a culture that views casual car use as morally acceptable, and so forth...
...personal decision, but it plays a major role. There is a lifestyle here that is different. If I wanted to go golfing in New York on a Saturday, I could, but it would involve driving a few hours and paying a few hundred dollars. Here, I get in the car, and I am on the course in five minutes," he says...
...Lahore, a usually bustling sprawl known as the "city of living hearts," was reduced to an eerie silence. Its routinely choked thoroughfares, often a cacophony of rickshaw engines and car horns, suddenly seemed spacious. Government buildings and shops closed down. In the heart of the city, the provincial legislature had been festooned with vast posters commemorating the sacrifice of the army officers who lost their lives in the military headquarters attack in Rawalpindi. Now the city had its own martyrs...
...northwest-Punjab militant nexus became brutally illumined on Thursday as the violence swung from near the Afghan border, to the edges of the Indian one, and back again. Before the attacks in Lahore, a suicide car bomb exploded near a police station in the northwest's Kohat city, killing three police officers and eight civilians. And when the Lahore violence was over, another car bomb exploded in Peshawar, killing a six-year-old boy and wounded nine others, mainly women and children. Security is also being beefed up in Karachi, Pakistan's financial capital and biggest city - and the only...