Word: englandisms
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...television screen, jaws agape. They are watching a promo for the Women's United Soccer Association (WUSA), the American professional league that featured the best female players in the world, including Hamm, Brazil's Katia and Bai Jie of China. Brandi Chastain knocks a header into the net. England's Kelly Smith shakes a defender. Unbelievable, the girls say. We can make a living in the game we love...
DIED. KATHARINA DALTON, 87, British gynecologist and early expert on premenstrual syndrome; in Poole, England. She began studying the connection between the menstrual cycle and behavioral swings when, as a pregnant medical student, she noticed that her premenstrual migraines had subsided. She gave the syndrome its name and treated sufferers with progesterone therapy, a regimen that was later rejected by most doctors...
ROYAL PATIENCE Prince Charles, first-born son of Queen Elizabeth II, has been the future King of England since his birth 56 years ago. One marriage, two sons and 11 Prime Ministers later, he's still waiting
...nothing but fast food as he drove up the Northern California coast with his wife and three young kids several summers ago. But unlike most of his helpless peers, Hirshberg, CEO of organic- yogurt giant Stonyfield Farm, decided to do something about it. Result: O'Naturals, a fledgling New England restaurant chain offering affordable organic food (including flatbread sandwiches, salads, soups and noodles) that Hirshberg dreams of making as ubiquitous as the Golden Arches. It may be a tall order, considering how poorly previous attempts at healthy fast food have fared (remember the McLean?). But after spending almost three years...
...Spamalot--scheduled to open on Broadway in March--could give the tired old genre a happy jolt. The movie, after all, seems a challenge from the get-go: an unwieldy hodgepodge of slapstick, splatter film, absurdism and animation, not to mention a grubby, mud-caked re-creation of medieval England. This is material for a Broadway musical...