Word: combs
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...Three hours later, forensic police sifted through the Victory Monument bus-stop wreckage for possible bomb components, collecting and photographing a handful of nails, a metal wristwatch band and twisted chunks of metal. After watching the police comb for evidence, German tourist Irina Martin said she was heading back to her hotel instead of going to Bangkok's famous New Year's countdown at the Central World shopping mall complex, as she had originally planned. "I heard rumors from other people that there might be more explosions at midnight," said the kindergarten teacher from Hamburg. "It's not worth going...
...teams in division I-AA), things will inevitably break down. When they do, Polhemus will elude the rush unlike any quarterback Harvard has faced, and find the Ancient Eight’s best pair of receivers to reveal the Crimson scheme for exactly what it is: a bad comb-over. Murphy would have seen it on the game tape from last week, except Jack Siedlecki bungled away a sure victory by opting repeatedly—and gutlessly—to run McLeod into a wall of eight or nine defenders throughout the second half, prompting a loss that, sans Cambridge...
...number of Canada’s largest universities have lately questioned the security of their U.S.-based online research tools because of the government’s power to comb individuals’ citation records for hints of collusion with any of America’s numerous enemies. One service in particular, RefWorks, has been the subject of scrutiny; Canadian academics are taking their personal accounts out of the California-based firm’s hands in spades, opting instead for a server at the University of Toronto, according to The Globe and Mail...
Ordinary novelists have readers. Thomas Pynchon has decoders. Anyone who has ventured into the manic densities of Gravity's Rainbow or Mason & Dixon knows the drill. You comb through his superabundance of historical data and scientific arcana. You adjust your nerve endings to operate at his mad frequencies. Day after day you resume the steep ascent of his achievement and just hope to make camp before nightfall...
...handy itinerary. A distance-measurement tool lets you count the footsteps from Rome's Spanish Steps to the Trevi Fountain without leaving your chair, while Schmap's listings update to match whatever quadrant of the city you're looking at, so you don't have to comb through bistros in Brooklyn while searching for Chinese food on New York City's Upper West Side. Schmap adds a slew of new city guides every month - users download 18,000 of them a day - and says it will start adding Asian destinations by the end of the year. A new software version...