Word: dozen
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...humid evening two months ago, a dozen police cars rolled up to the simple Riyadh residence of Salman al-Huraisi, a 28-year-old hotel security guard. The policemen stormed into the house, breaking down doors, tearing through personal belongings and crying, "God is great!" Then they arrested al-Huraisi, along with 10 other family members. His alleged crime: consuming and selling beer...
...poor households unable to replenish the soil. But with a little help, Mbola has begun to break this cycle and begin the climb out of poverty. Last year it became a U.N.-backed Millennium Village and is now one of scores of such villages in more than a dozen countries in sub-Saharan Africa to receive aid from a new organization I had the honor of co-founding, Millennium Promise. Business and civic leaders helped form this poverty-ending alliance, which promotes holistic, community-driven economic-development initiatives...
...registered as a 527, a tax-exempt group with disclosure requirements far less stringent than those of a real campaign organization. Federal election law requires Thompson to declare himself a candidate once he decides to plunge into the water, which - given that he has signed up more than two dozen staffers, opened two offices and appointed his second and third campaign managers - he seems to have done...
...Meanwhile she keeps half a dozen plots simmering on the back burners. It's book 7, so it's time for the remaining couples to pair off. Tonks and Lupin get married, as do Bill Weasley and Fleur Delacour. Harry's romance with Ginny is still smoldering, and if their liaisons have a sanitized, G-rated quality to them, they also have a wartime urgency that's kind of hot. With an eye for the unexpected, Rowling hands out a parting gift of redemption to a dodgy minor character or two. Most importantly, as Harry's own story is playing...
...that sounds overly sinister and heavy for "Tamere" and the half dozen or so other revelers who appear to be toking with one hand, while sipping from the other. He argues that most medical studies show cannabis to be fairly innocuous - in some cases even remedial of afflictions - and in any case, far less dangerous to health than tobacco or his glass of vino. "There's a certain degree of risk in anything you do, including eating!" he says, passing his petard to his laconic chum. "Risk and indulgence is inherent in the French way of life. It's part...