Word: channelized
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...Splish, Splash Who would want to spend 14 1/2 hours in the chilly waters of the English Channel? Not many, but 19-year-old Gertrude Ederle, who died at the age of 98 on Dec. 1, did just that, and she set the record as the first woman to swim the Channel [Milestones, Dec. 15], beating by two hours the best men's time. We reported her swim from France to Britain in an Aug. 16, 1926, article...
...Some of the guys were building up their expectations towards this competition,” Bullock said. “Now we have to channel our energies to work much harder in the coming weeks...
...made in times of war: Edward R. Murrow in World War II, Morley Safer in Vietnam and now, with his deskbound coverage of the fighting in Iraq, The Daily Show's Stewart. As he incessantly points out, he plays host on a fake newscast on a basic cable channel (Comedy Central), but this allows him to be critical, arch, incredulous and relevant, to the delight of viewers and the envy of many real journalists...
...recent years, the TGV high-speed trains and the Channel Tunnel have given the city back its medieval role as the crossroads linking London, Paris and Brussels. British, Dutch and German visitors have already rediscovered the historic capital of Flanders and its beautifully renovated 17th and 18th century Vieux Lille, or Old Town...
Among advocates for peace, there are no optimists. There are only those like former Israeli justice minister Yossi Beilin, and former Palestinian information minister Yasir Abed Rabbo, who refuse to endure a grim status quo. After two and a half years of back-channel negotiations, they signed their unofficial Geneva Accord on Dec. 1, a detailed vision of a two-state solution that settles questions that previous efforts, including Bush’s stillborn Roadmap, dared not touch...