Word: connect
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...trafficking routes are both local and international, and most often connect to Syria, Jordan and the gulf (primarily the United Arab Emirates). The victims are trafficked either illegally on forged passports or "legally" through forced marriages. A married female, even one as young as 14, raises few suspicions if she's traveling with her "husband." The girls are then divorced upon arrival and put to work. (See Iraq's return to normality...
...metabolized, its effects are more sedating. To measure the relationship between people's actual and perceived impairment along this continuum, researchers tested subjects twice, at 25 min. and 75 min. after they'd begun drinking. The two motor-skills tasks used to measure actual impairment were akin to connect-the-dots, but slightly more complicated. The first test simply required participants to draw lines between numbered dots in order; the second required them to alternate between numbers and letters in order as they connected the dots. (See reviews of 50 American wines...
Will these new home-shopping networks put more real estate agents out of business? "The site is open to Realtors and helps them connect motivated sellers," says Daniel Westbrook, CEO of onlinehousetrading.com which now has more than 50,000 frustrated property owners looking to make a swap. "The reason they turn to us at all is they've exhausted all other options...
...society. It's nothing new. It happened 2,000 years ago too." Father Thelakkat's reaction is somewhat similar. Though he doesn't deny Raphael's allegations, he refuses to acknowledge their seriousness either: "The incidents may be true, but they are isolated cases." Clearly, it's time to connect the dots and see the bigger picture...
...unexpectedly starbursts into sensory-overload. Wildly colorful images are digitized and distorted, stuttering choppily from frame to pixilated frame. Weak-stomached watchers beware: you may find “Welcome to Nausea” to be a more accurate title. All the while, in a thinly-veiled attempt to connect with the masses, Kanye muses about how much it sucks to be bankin’—poor Kanye, rich in an economic recession. And what’s better than one gloomy Kanye? Lots of them!! The video feeds Kanye’s narcissism as it allows...