Word: dig
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...mosque in Banda Aceh, Indonesia, now littered with a thick debris of dead snakes, chickens and humans - in just one collection point of the city, the authorities have gathered 3,500 corpses. On the Andaman coast in Thailand, soldiers are using an ax and a spade to dig out the body of a woman half-buried beneath a palm tree. Eighty kilometers south in Patong, a honky-tonk beach town on Phuket Island, 100 bodies are laid out in front of a morgue that has room to refrigerate only two. To the south, in Galle, an old Dutch town...
...immediately, on the good side and bad side. Journalism is at its best when it’s patient. With the blog and hydraulics of cable news, there’s pressure for "Now, now! Give it to us live!" You don’t have time to go dig. Digging is the big thing. Katherine Graham [head of the Post during Watergate], she recapped [Watergate]: "keep laughing, keep digging, keep loving—beware the demon pomposity...
...fines and penalties of up to 10 years in prison. An anti-pretexting law would also ban the data brokers who practice pretexting from advertising their services, making it harder for them to create a business out of it. Congressional JockeyingThe House Committee on Energy & Commerce had their own dig at party politics at the recent hearings, displaying a mock vintage movie poster featuring Scarlett and Rhett's classic pose with the caption "H.R. 4943 Gone with the Wind." (You have to be a Congressional aide to appreciate the humor.) They were referring to the Committee's pretexting bill, Prevention...
...project--which voters look set to approve in an Oct. 22 referendum--may not compare with the big dig that created the canal a century ago, but Torrijos insists it is no less urgent, both for international shipping and Panama's development. "My dad solved the struggle for ownership," Torrijos told TIME. "My generation's challenge is to make better economic and social use of this geographical position history...
...vessels in the global commercial fleet is expected to jump 74%, to about 700, and by 2011, they will probably account for half the world's oceangoing commercial-cargo capacity, according to the World Shipping Council in Washington. The expansion design, approved by Panama's Congress last spring, would dig a new approach channel about five miles long just east of the existing Gatun locks at the Atlantic entrance, and a similar one just west of the Miraflores locks on the Pacific side. Each new channel would hold three-step locks 180 ft. wide, compared with...