Word: chowed
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...under house arrest since kidnapping threats make venturing out too dangerous even with a squad of bodyguards. Other days I spend on embed with the U.S. military, where soldierly doldrums are punctuated by episodes of high adventure. One moment you're eating a plate of tasteless food in a chow hall. Hours later you're right behind U.S. troops as they kick in a door where insurgents might he hiding...
...Harvard students. “Since China is a place with ever increasing political, cultural, and economic influence, we thought it would be a great idea to have a dinner incorporating lessons about etiquette,” Cheuk said. Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations Eileen C. Chow advised students on how to be polite when interacting with business professionals. “Please and thank you work very differently in China,” she said. “In cases in English when you would say thank you, you would instead be saying...
...even get away with playing to ignorant assumptions--if you're Hong Kong superstar Chow Yun-Fat. Chow signed on to Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End to impersonate what he describes as "the Western audience's stereotype of the Chinese bad guy from the 17th century: long beard, long fingernails." But he didn't fret over the racial cartoonery. "I just let it flow. I'm a good...
...down to a mere 22 in the 1980s and now, after two decades of capturing and breeding, still only hovers at 279 individual birds. According to a recent U.C.-Santa Cruz study, about one-third of 18 tested birds - easy victims because they are strictly scavengers and therefore chow often on lead-laden carcasses and gutpiles left over by hunters - had high levels of lead in their blood. Lead, says Andreano, is perhaps the primary barrier to the species' recovery...
...weeks time, John Harvard’s staid, suburban sister plans to strip down, get liquored up, and let loose for a week of liberal-minded debauchery. On the heels of an April 7 concert to promote choice, fronted by a lesbian-led rock group at its Lulu Chow Wang campus center, Wellesley College’s GBLSTA group Spectrum plans to host its annual Dyke Ball on April...