Word: cementation
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...road x2) respond like they're controlled by mere thought. The secret is in its new control shaft, which has done away with the steering grip and now sways in sync with the rider to turn the device. The effect is akin to skiing, on cement...
...clambering until 3 a.m. FOTIS A. KARAYANNOPOULOS, attorney Begin with a martini at the Hilton's panoramic Galaxy Bar, where you can watch a glorious Greek sunset. Move on to the Panathinaia open-air cinema to catch a vintage 1940s film and smell the jasmine flowers that adorn the cement wall. Then, take to the balcony of the Attikos restaurant for a great view and a scrumptious sofrito veal meal. Head for the trendy Gazi clubbing district for a final round of drinks and some late-night flirting and dancing. Should Tyche, goddess of Fortune, hitch you up with...
Snakes may cement Jackson's status as the multiplex's great populist--a title he has pursued for years. His early career, like those of most actors, was a series of frustrating absurdities. Jackson originated the role of Boy Willie in August Wilson's The Piano Lesson but was shunted to understudy when Charles S. Dutton became available. Jackson also spent two years as Bill Cosby's on-set stand-in for The Cosby Show. (He does a formidable Cos impression.) After Pulp Fiction made him famous in his mid-40s, Jackson settled into his current rhythm of mixing prestige...
...Washington yesterday with not much to show but hope and determination to persuade the U.N. Security Council to approve a U.S.-British resolution laying out a comprehensive political and security plan between Israel and Lebanon, including Lebanon's Hizballah militants. Rice's plans to cement at least informal Israeli and Lebanese commitments to that plan had been sidetracked the day before by the global uproar over an Israeli bombardment that had gone awry, collapsing a residence in the south Lebanon town of Qana, crushing and suffocating 54 people, mostly women and children...
...rigid and huddled up against a wall," says Ghazi Idibi, 32, a neighbour of Abbas Hashem, whose three-story unfinished home on the outskirts of Qana was destroyed early Sunday morning by two aerial bombs dropped by an Israeli jet. The house, a typical simple Lebanese structure of reinforced cement and cinder blocks, had provided shelter for 10 days to 53 people, mainly women and small children, drawn from the extended Hashem and Shalhoub families. Only eight people survived the air strike, the rest buried beneath rubble and dirt, and suffocating to death, according to the Lebanese Red Cross...