Word: dwarfs
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...clear the Iraqi checkpoint? An Arab ambassador based in Baghdad replied wryly, "If you're Hussein al-Majid and you're driving to Jordan, you can bring out not only $50 million but $5 billion and no one will search you." Baghdad later accused the "traitor dwarf" of stealing public funds...
...Page One when, "despondent over the irremediable passage of time, angered at the betrayal of her flesh," Bathory has all the mirrors in her castle destroyed. For an encore, she encases a beautiful young girl in ice. Subsequent victims are burned, pierced, torn, or licked into convulsions by a dwarf...
...fineness of touch. But to get at what's really interesting means digging into a number of unsettling questions. Is the poet's embrace of academia (even more than fiction writers, poets are likely to teach for a living) a bad thing? In an age of computers whose memories dwarf our own, what is the fate of the old-fashioned practice of learning poems by heart? Does that easily brandished term Postmodernism in fact herald anything new, or are we seeing the mere aftershocks of the modernist earthquake that erupted three-quarters of a century...
Astronomers have finally found what appears to be a brown dwarf, a long-sought heavenly object that until now has existed only in theory. Brown dwarfs are not quite big and hot enough to ignite the nuclear-fusion reaction that would make them shine as full-fledged stars. They probably account for some of the universe's "missing" matter...
...Favorite Dwarf? Sleepy...