Word: circuitousness
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...around a 17-mile underground ring, crash them into one another to re-create the immediate aftereffects of the Big Bang, and then monitor the debris in the hopes of learning more about the origins and workings of the universe. Next week marks a low-power run of the circuit, and scientists hope to start smashing atoms at full power by the end of the month...
...first for a major sports body, the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA) tour will require players to speak English by 2009 or face suspension. Among the circuit's 121 foreign golfers from 26 nations--45 from South Korea alone--many back the policy, which the LPGA said would appeal to sponsors and fans and is "not meant to be punitive...
...brain aneurysm at the age of 58, she was very young. I had never seen anybody so energetic. She was bouncy and bubbly and charismatic. When she entered a room, the character of that room changed. People loved that beautiful smile she had. No other candidate on the judicial circuit at the time had that kind of appeal...
...Orwellian mouthpiece - the unquestioning apparatchik feeding the cowed masses their daily dose of newspeak. The second is that of the dissident author, imprisoned, beaten and tortured for railing against corruption and human-rights abuses, or forced into lonely exile and doomed forevermore to wander the Western lecture circuit...
Last week, however, the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals rescinded Posada's go-free card, reversing the El Paso judge's ruling. Now the anti-Castro militant, who has also been linked to 1997 bombings of tourist sites in Cuba that killed an Italian man (a charge he later denied), could be facing life behind bars again - if, that is, the Bush Administration hauls him back into detention and continues to pursue its immigration case. It's unclear whether the Texas court will reinstate his bond, and Posada's Miami attorney, Arturo V. Hernandez, says he'll appeal...