Word: containers
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Question: Can a film symbolically contain all the elements of a vast, complicated and enigmatic tragedy within the microcosmic story of a single individual accidentally caught up in the ghastly mess of - for convenient example - the Iraq...
...American soldiers, acting on a bad tip, goes barging into the home of one Yunis Khatayer Abbas, looking for bombs, or bomb-making equipment, or anything that may incriminate him and his family in this dirty deed. All they find is a locked ammunition box that proves to contain shampoo and party decorations. What Abbas and his brothers - one of them a university student, another a doctor - get is a mess of trouble, a year of incarceration and sometimes brutal interrogation before they are set free...
...anyone, but I don't encourage rushing out to replace incandescent lightbulbs. A CFL may consume 75% less energy to generate the equivalent light, but my furnace has to make up for the heat no longer provided by the incandescent bulb. Since there are also disposal issues (CFLs contain mercury), I suggest that CFLs be used only in the refrigerator...
That may be true. But the Bush Administration is beginning to recognize that to stabilize Afghanistan and prevent the rebirth of al-Qaeda, it has to contain the growth of Talibanistan. Assistant Secretary of State Richard Boucher announced in Islamabad that the U.S. intends to give an extra $750 million to Musharraf over the next five years to support development in the tribal areas. "I think this commitment to the development of Pakistan, this commitment to a long-term relationship, is another example of the very broad and deep relationship we have and that we are developing with Pakistan," Boucher...
...Harvard’s goals. Flood continued his dominance at midfield, winning 11-of-19 faceoffs and helping the Crimson to a number of clock-milking possessions. But ball control wasn’t a problem for Harvard—it was the team’s inability to contain the speed of the Stags’ attackmen that was most glaring in the loss. “They were a fast-paced, up-tempo team,” Mahler said. “They really pressured us on defense and came out and got in our guys?...