Word: corks
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...Nicetown, on 15th Street, a short walk from the busy corner of Broad Street and Hunting Park. Every night when he was working the night shift, he'd head off to the plant wearing a peacoat and a cap. He could have been leaving for an evening in County Cork...
...fifteen minutes over a two-block stretch near the Forbidden City, participation was limited to 200 people due to security concerns surrounding the nearby session of the National People's Congress. Roach walked at its head, alongside Ireland's ambassador to China, Declan Kelleher; a traditional bagpiper; and County-cork born Beijing local Shane O'Neill, whose leprechaun costume purchased at a Dublin shop came complete with a false belly. The trailing marchers included members of the Dublin Youth Orchestra, the local youth Irish dance troupe "The Celtic Dragons," and the chorus from the Bai Nian Vocational School, a free...
...part that's adjacent to a brain region associated with addiction. If the two areas indeed overlap, as Fisher suspects, that helps explain why telling a jilted lover that it's time to move on can be fruitless--as fruitless as admonishing a drunk to put a cork in the bottle...
...part that's adjacent to a brain region associated with addiction. If the two areas indeed overlap, as Fisher suspects, that helps explain why telling a jilted lover that it's time to move on can be fruitless-as fruitless as admonishing a drunk to put a cork in the bottle...
...Museum is most of all, and rightly, an art book. The specimens are arranged on the black or white pages like jewels on velvet or silk, the feathers and insect wings, corals and shells as brilliant as when they were first pinned into cork-lined drawers or stowed in boxes and jars. Stacey, who shot with film and scanned the images into a computer, says she limited her digital intervention to boosting contrast or deep-etching outlines. "I'm trying to give the sense that it is there in front of you. It's not the actual object...