Word: drips
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...small, but it's growing like wildfire," says Clay, an American who worked in Rwanda before fleeing the violence. The co-ops' income has jumped from $650,000 in 2004 to $1.2 million in 2005 and is expected to reach $3 million in 2006. That's just a drip in the $11.4 billion world coffee market, but to farmers like Triphine Mukamyasiro, 23, whose family was killed in the genocide, it's huge. She made $30 annually when she started selling coffee in 1993. After joining a PEARL co-op, she began earning some $400 a year, about twice...
April-Agro's enterprising president, Morris Demel, 50, a Polish-born Jew who grew up in Cuba and fled to Puerto Rico after Castro's takeover, planned to grow produce on arid southern coast farmland once used for sugar cane. Importing five Israeli agronomists and applying drip-irrigation methods developed on Israeli kibbutzim, Demel initially wanted to devote 5,000 acres to fruits and vegetables. But seven years after he began the project, only 1,000 acres are under cultivation...
...first break in al-Qahtani 's facade comes with a long-delayed call of nature. When a hunger strike he has launched fizzles, he starts refusing water. That becomes a battle of wills--and teeth. Al-Qahtani quickly becomes so dehydrated that medical corpsmen forcibly administer fluids by IV drip. He tries to fight them off with his hands and is restrained. Another time, al-Qahtani tries to rip the IV needle out; when he is cuffed to his chair, he turns his head and bites the IV line completely in two. He is then strapped down and given...
...much more serious problem develops on Dec. 7: a medical corpsman reports that al-Qahtani is becoming seriously dehydrated, the result of his refusal to take water regularly. He is given an IV drip, and a doctor is summoned. An unprecedented 24-hour time out is called, but even as al-Qahtani is put under a doctor's care, music is played to "prevent detainee from sleeping." Nine hours later, a medical corpsman checks al-Qahtani's pulse and finds it "unusually slow." An electrocardiogram is administered by a doctor, and after al-Qahtani is transferred to a hospital...
...often the steady drip-drip of accusations that ultimately undermines embattled Washington nominees. But what's surprising about Bolton's precarious situation is that he may be undone more by the charges that he's a bully toward colleagues and underlings than by his strongly held conservative views about U.S. foreign policy and international institutions like the U.N. "We can't argue that this guy is unfit just because he's said mean things about the U.N.," conceded a top Senate Democrat. "Don't forget, most Americans agree with him." Though troubling to some Republicans, even allegations that Bolton...