Word: dwi
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...teas." But you don't need to taste them to know how much they are valued. At Happy Valley tea estate, perched at 6,800 ft. (2,100 m) where the Himalayas snake into India between Nepal and Bhutan, workers harvest the autumn flush, plucking each tip of dwi paat suiro--two leaves and a bud--as if it were worth its weight in gold. As the sun sets on the looming Mount Kanchenjunga and a lazy mist begins to settle, pickers carefully empty their bamboo baskets and take in their loads to be weighed. One man swiftly but keenly...
...SENTENCED. Abdul Aziz, 31, Dwi Widiarto, 34, and Mohammad Cholili, 29, to eight to 18 years in prison for their roles in the October 2005 suicide bombings in Bali, Indonesia, which killed 20 people and injured over 100; in Denpasar. Aziz reportedly harbored Jemaah Islamiah plotter Nurdin Mohammed Top and designed websites for the terror organization, while Widiarto helped film the bombers' farewell tapes. Both received eight-year sentences. Cholili, a former mobile-phone vendor who assembled circuitry for the bombs, was sentenced to 18 years in jail...
...DWI: Driving With Impunity...
...been arrested for drunken driving before and here was again found to have been intoxicated. Horn was fired from "Bandstand," moved to Houston, got a radio job under the name Bob Adams and soon lost it. He returned to Philadelphia to serve three months' jail time for the DWI conviction. In 1966 he died of a heart attack. He was just 50. (This strange tale and others are related at the History of Rock 'n' Roll website.) In the lore of Philly kids - not a sentimental lot - Horn was memorialized with a joke. What's Bob Horn's license plate...
...other night on "Hardball," John McCain and Chris Matthews agreed, in tones of subdued wonder, that George W. Bush, only days into the job, seemed, well, amazingly "presidential." He seemed smart enough not only to get through the first week of the presidency without being arrested for DWI or moronic diction, but to move into power rather deftly. The papers called it a charm offensive, and they weren't being sarcastic; the charm was working. Ted Kennedy, of all people, said nice things. He warned Democrats not to underestimate...