Word: crystal
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...first glance, the stuffy basement room in the Maricopa County courthouse seems unremarkable: a black-robed figure looming over the dais; lawyers and sheriff's deputies at the ready; a line of 72 convicted felons up for sentencing. First comes the lanky forklift driver caught with crystal meth. Then the surly mechanic, father of three, busted for cocaine. And the pale 19-year-old with shorn red hair, on probation for using marijuana, who has failed his latest drug test. He shuffles his feet as his mother looks on, wipes away a tear and mumbles, "I messed...
...must for romantic comedy lovers: Julia Roberts stars as Kiki, the sister of popular film star Gwen (Catherine Zeta-Jones), who finds herself attracted to her sister's estranges actor husband, played by John Cusack. Co-stars Billy Crystal, Hank Azaria, and Seth Green...
...Tito plan would allow sports teams in small cities to spend more on their rosters. Sure, the Yankees make money despite an obscenely high payroll, but what about the clubs in smaller towns? Why shouldn't the penny-pinching Kansas City Royals, for example, allow Billy Crystal to pitch the first inning for $100,000 or give some multi-millionaire baseball-player-wannabe three at-bats for the same price? They don't win many games anyway; and who knows, the fans might really take to it. I've been at basketball games where the crowd yells loudest when...
...words: nuclear weapons. When the powers of Europe marched off to war in 1914, when Japan attacked in 1941, none of them knew what would await them in 1918 or 1945 - a world destroyed. Today the Chinese know, and so do the Americans; they can look into the crystal with dvd clarity. Great fear breeds great caution, hence the kind of wariness that made both sides stop at the very top of the slippery slope that opened before them in Hainan. All's well that ends well? By no means. China will keep pressing, and the U.S. will keep pressing...
...that U.S. industrial output from the moribund manufacturing sector, after a 0.4 percent dip in February, jumped 0.4 percent in March, surprising analysts and raising anew the old question: Will the Fed move sooner, or later? TIME senior economics reporter Bernie Baumohl weighs the data and shines up his crystal ball...