Word: dig
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...highly-publicized incident last month, the Columbia University Marching Band drew vehement criticism from Catholic leaders when it took a dig at the Church’s sexual abuse scandal...
...charas?hashish, pressed cannabis resin. Production is booming here in Afghanistan, aggravating a famine brought on by years of drought and war. A healthy field of hemp needs plenty of water. Dope growers in the mountains siphon off the streams that still flow, while hash farmers in the plains dig wells up to 100 meters deep to reach the water table. The combined effect of drought, reduced water from the hills and the cannabis cultivators' new boreholes is catastrophic, says Bertrand Brequeville of French aid group Action Contre la Faim. "It's only the rich drug producers who can afford...
...September attempt to kill the President has heightened concerns about his safety. Karzai's U.S. backers worry about the threats posed by Taliban and al-Qaeda remnants as well as by unyielding warlords such as Gulbuddin Hekmatyar. And so the U.S., it appears, is helping the Afghan President dig...
...obvious military purpose, just the kind of place a dictator is likely to hide sensitive weapons. On top of everything, the U.N. doesn’t expect to have inspectors on the ground until six months from now, giving Hussein the chance to prepare his stash of anthrax, dig up old canisters of VX and throw everything he has at developing a nuclear bomb. Weapons inspection is a tedious process, and the first phase will be spent just figuring out which installations need to be inspected. If the inspectors are ever on the verge of finding something important, Iraq...
...might have to go as far back as the age of Pericles, in the 5th century B.C., to find a time of such frantic - and transforming - construction in Athens. Everywhere you turn, workers are digging roadbeds, throwing up scaffolding, building overpasses - all in anticipation of Aug. 13, 2004. That's when the Olympics come home for the first time since 1896, the year Athens hosted the first Games of the modern era. No one is suggesting that the new Nikaia Weightlifting Hall matches the Parthenon for elegance or grandeur. Nor is the new Olympic Village being carved out of marble...