Word: elasticize
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The issue is a sticky one, and there’s no easy answer. Reliable communications networks are, next to government stability and electrical power, perhaps one of the most important services a growing economy needs. Increasing the cost of VoIP in a country or making it illegal will, economists...
From an early age, he was searching. Wylie Pitman, a shopkeeper from round the way in Greenville, had a piano and a jukebox, and he used to invite young Ray to play them both. On the jukebox, Ray would hear blues from Tampa Red, jazz from Count Basie and pop...
Human-rights advocates say the lesson from last week is that degrading or cruel treatment is never O.K., not even if thousands of lives are at stake. Says Kenneth Roth, head of Human Rights Watch and a former federal prosecutor: "Proponents of torture always cite the ticking-bomb scenario. The...
Patients lie down during the procedure, which lasts an hour and is performed once a day, five times a week, for seven weeks. (The cost is about $6,000, compared with as much as $60,000 for bypass surgery.) The pneumatic cuffs are timed to inflate in progression--starting with...
Better aim your grocery cart toward the fruit aisle. Studies in animals hint that berries are bursting with benefits. For one thing, they are chock-full of antioxidants, which help absorb some of the toxic molecules called free radicals that the body produces during metabolism. Cranberries may pack a one...