Word: cheeking
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...Etruscan scholar Hema knows that in two weeks she is to return to India to wed in an arranged marriage, she feels, in the liminal space of Rome, “free of her past and free of her future in a place where so many different time stood cheek by jowl like guests at a crowded party.” Attempting to live only in the present, the two sense “a newborn connection that could not be left unattended” and embark on a bittersweet affair. Their identity as a couple is fragile, though...
Revenge may be more satisfying, but according to Harvard mathematical biologist Martin A. Nowak, turning the other cheek is ultimately sweeter...
...dimensionality, plunging you into the middle of teeming stadium crowds, without the elbow in your ribs or the drunk "Woo hoo!" girl in your ear. And unlike $70 nosebleed seats, the $17 movie tickets get you close enough to Bono's outstretched hand to nearly feel him graze your cheek. Some fans are showing up for the film ready to take part--during a glittering shot of a crowd holding up thousands of cell phones, movie audiences have been lifting their own devices...
Venter had Genetic Technologies secure the rights to the test, and in 2004 the company launched it commercially. Today, with a quick swab of the inside of a cheek, customers around the world can have the relevant gene tested...
...Sullivan is surrounded by photographs from Iraq. She points to one that was a gift from Gen. David H. Petraeus—a snapshot of the pair standing together. In another picture, Iraqi president Jalal Talabani gives O’Sullivan a kiss on the cheek at the UN General Assembly meeting in 2006. A third shows O’Sullivan briefing a serious-looking President Bush in the Oval Office...