Word: counterfuls
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Johnny Chan stands glumly behind the counter at his Hong Kong Optical Shop. The 1,080-yuan ($130) Ray-Bans gather dust, while the 100-yuan models are moving briskly. Nearly five years ago, Chan came back to Guangzhou from Australia because he thought fortunes were to be made here. But business has soured since 1994, he says, and his two city shops are losing money. Even worse is crime. "Guangzhou is very bad," he says. "So many bad men, pickpockets, they all steal." Ever since he was mugged and badly beaten one morning, Chan takes two bodyguards when...
...Inca used to treat headaches by drilling a hole in the skull. The French favored cold compresses. Today we use shelffuls of heavily advertised over-the-counter remedies: aspirin, Advil, Tylenol, Aleve. But how much do scientists really know about headaches and what causes them? Quite a bit, as doctors who gathered in New York City last week for a meeting of the American Association for the Study of Headache can attest...
...College brought a counter-proposal to the meeting which permanently recognized the board of trustees as PBHA's governing body--the compromise agreement did so only on an experimental basis--and called for the creation of a ombudsmen board to mediate future disagreements between PBHA and the College...
...punishment for the rest of his days but because "it makes us more morally energetic about punishment. We wake up each morning to punish some more." And the death sentence, abolitionists believe, implies that certain individuals have lost the right to call themselves human, an idea that runs counter to the Founding Fathers' vision of inalienable rights that can neither be taken away for bad behavior nor awarded for good conduct. Those rights, says Amnesty International deputy director Curt Goering, "apply to all of us--even the worst. And in the end, they protect...
PRIME TIME: A numbered counter that shows hundredths of a second straddles the prime meridian at Britain's Royal Greenwich Observatory...