Word: closers
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...while others say there is little difference between the two. We come down somewhere in the middle—Chipotle’s meat seems to have a marinade that makes it slightly more flavorful, but the difference is often not enough to keep us from the several-blocks-closer Qdoba outpost...
...version of Wikipedia, although it boasts just 62 articles. Wales, who remains the "spiritual head" of the movement, says he wants Wikipedia to one day contain the sum of human knowledge. It has a way to go, but in just a few years the site has come closer to reaching that lofty goal than anything else...
...want to work and I want to focus on my career. These things matter." Amar likens arranging marriages to shopping for food. "It's like a department store," he says. "You can pick up whatever brand you like." For the Indian bride, it seems, the preferred choice is now closer to home...
...earthquake. The foreign ministry is asking other countries for help, another issue it has been criticized for being slow on. In particular, it's asking for prefabricated houses and helicopters that can lift trucks and excavators so that roads can be reopened. China, which Taiwan has grown closer to under the Ma administration, has also offered to provide 1000 prefabricated homes, relief personnel and over $14 million for relief efforts...
...many ways, Liberia is a predictable stop on Clinton's itinerary. Liberia has always had closer ties to America than other African countries, and with President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf as the first female elected head of state in the continent, it's not surprising Liberia was in Clinton's Africa tour of hotspots like Eastern Congo and strategic partners like to oil-rich Nigeria and Angola. Liberia was founded by freed American slaves in the early 1800s under a corporation called the American Colonization Society. The newcomers set up a social hierarchy similar to the plantation system they were familiar...