Word: clumped
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...padlocks to make sure they're secure. A two-month-old dispute between Gambia and its enveloping neighbor Senegal has cut river crossings, the lifeblood of Farafenni's business, to a trickle. "This is hurting both of us," says port tax collector Karamo Marong, counting out a thin clump of sweaty bills that is his day's meager haul. "And it's ordinary people who suffer." At issue is not just bureaucracy but the crazy quilt of borders stitched across the continent by Europe's colonial powers during the scramble for Africa in the 19th century. The partitioning rarely followed...
...Doerflinger, deputy director of the secretariat for pro-life activities in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.Given the success of existing methods of creating embryonic stem cell lines, Eggan and Lensch both said that the moral obligation towards the sick and dying far outweigh any moral obligation towards a clump of cells.“I’m in this field because I have people close to me that have gotten some pretty terrible diseases,” said Lensch. “I have made a commitment in my life to help them—and when people...
...golden mask. The process is documented in a National Geographic Channel special, King Tut's Final Secrets, airing May 29. The images also debunk the notion that Tut was murdered. The mysterious lump in the back of his skull, discovered in a 1968 X ray, was just a hardened clump of embalming resin...
Fast-forward two years: this spring she published The Breaking Point: How Female Midlife Crisis Is Transforming Today's Women, which suggests that the national conversation is about to have a hot flash. The passage through middle age of so large a clump of women - there are roughly 43 million American women ages 40 to 60 - guarantees that some rules may have to be rewritten and boundaries moved to accommodate them. That was part of the inspiration for Shellenbarger's book. "I thought I could help other women see this coming in their lives," Shellenbarger says, "and not only avoid...
...charred tobacco pipe; a melted lump of coins; a mass of nails, of sake cups. A watch stopped at exactly 8:16 was found in the sands of the Motoyasu River. A horse is on display; its legs are missing. One case contains hair that had fallen in a clump on the ground. (Kawamoto's hair fell out after six weeks, but two months later it grew back again.) Another case contains black fingernails two or three inches in length that had grown on a hand where the skin was entirely burned off. The black nails had blood vessels...