Word: drip
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...Captain David Rozelle, a 33-year-old amputee who lost his right foot after his Humvee rolled over a land mine in Iraq in June 2003. He headed back to Iraq earlier this month to command a 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment troop. Aside from those daily slow-drip shrapnel and bullet wounds, there are the times that Landstuhl's doctors call simply "surge modes" - stretches of up to 24 hours when they perform nonstop operations. Like military historians, they can rattle off without pause the war's bloodiest events for American soldiers, when casualties spilled into the passages: the bombing...
Emoh, then, represents that peace, and a new phase in Barlow’s career. While some see him leaning ever closer to a twilight incarnation as a washed-up singer-songwriter, his stage presence is still as quirky and sincere as ever, and his songs still drip with emotion and past hauntings, if just a bit more clearly than before...
...part of a newer, more businesslike style of philanthropy: "A market-based approach to giving," says Julie Juergens, director of Stanford University's Center for Social Innovation. Acumen works with local companies on business plans, then helps them make, distribute and market products and services for the poor, from drip-irrigation kits in India to generic-drug shops in Kenya. The underlying idea is that if you help build financially stable companies that sell things poor people need--clean water, housing, health care--then self-sufficiency and a better standard of living follow...
...brain, hoping for a treatment for depression or alcoholism. But is the high also hype? Certainly, among people new to caffeine, the buzz is real. A caffeine novice can get a kick from as little as 20 mg of caffeine--the equivalent of 1.5 oz. of strong drip coffee. But the average coffee drinker may consume upwards of 300 mg a day, often with no discernible effect on mood. Reason: the body quickly habituates to the chemical and requires ever higher doses to feel anything...
Willen De Kooning or Jackson Pollock--in postwar American art, those were the heavyweight contenders. Pollock's drip paintings took art to a place beyond the brushstroke. The prestidigitations of de Kooning's brush summoned it back again. Even the powerful critic Clement Greenberg, who would turn against de Kooning for his failure to renounce figure painting, had to admit the guy's appeal. "De Kooning really took a whole generation with him," Greenberg once wrote. "Like the flute player of the fairy tale...