Word: dusts
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...much afraid of the suicide bombing. When I go out, I am not sure whether I return alive or not." The week before in Kabul, a taxi driver named Aimal Naheb was stuck in traffic when an explosion lifted his car and blackened the air with dust. Only when the dust cleared and Aimal saw flames coming from the Ministry of the Interior just 15 cars in front of him did he realize he wasn't the target. Fearful of a secondary explosion, Aimal turned across traffic and drove away as fast as he could. The people fated...
...fact, the last 15 years have seen great innovations in board-game design. One game, Settlers of Catan, has almost single-handedly sparked a renaissance in board gaming in Europe. And retoolings of classic American games like Risk have introduced ideas that leave many older games in the dust. Granted, board games are a niche hobby. However, the 250,000-plus people who visit the Essen Games Fair in Germany each year would be the first to tell you that board-game designs have come a long way, baby! Jan Velinger, Prague...
...hundreds of household items; BPA is in everything from baby bottles to can linings (to protect against E. coli and botulism), while phthalates are found in children's toys as well as vinyl shower curtains. And those chemicals can get inside us through the food, water and bits of dust we consume or even by being absorbed through our skin. Indeed, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported that 92% of Americans age 6 or older test positive for BPA--a sign of just how common the chemical is in our plastic universe...
...beset by personal tragedies like the death of his beloved daughter Susy, his view of mankind grew darker. He once told his friend William Dean Howells that "the remorseless truth" in his work was generally to be found "between the lines, where the author-cat is raking dust upon it which hides from the disinterested spectator neither it nor its smell." But in 1900, when he could no longer stomach the foreign adventures of the Western powers, he came right out and called a pile of it a pile of it. In the previous year or two, Germany and Britain...
...What we don't want is that information to lie on a shelf somewhere gathering dust," Mitchell said. "Surely it's only humane and decent that information that could help find Madeleine comes to the investigators who will keep looking for her even if the police feel they can't." The McCanns will appear in a British High Court on July 7 to request that police files be released...