Word: explicitness
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...personnel threw the holy book in a toilet. As of last week, the inquiry, led by Brigadier General Jay W. Hood, had found five instances in which a guard or interrogator mishandled the Koran-although Hood would not explain exactly how-all but one before January 2003, when explicit rules about the Koran were established. But Hood's team found no credible evidence that one was ever tossed in a toilet. Three incidents were probably deliberate and two inadvertent, Hood said late last week. He added that his team had reinterviewed a detainee who had previously told FBI agents...
...recognition of the risks of rampant inactivity, this year the federal Dietary Guidelines for Americans, which have been issued every five years since 1980, included its most explicit recommendations to date on exercise. The scientists who wrote the guidelines struggled to boil down a complex array of research findings. The results, alas, were somewhat baffling. Americans were advised to get 30 min. per day of moderate-intensity physical activity "on most days of the week," 60 min. per day if they were trying to control their weight and up to 90 min. per day to maintain weight loss. Even...
...search of a greater political role, particularly in the writing of Iraq's new constitution. The gathering's final statement condemned terror attacks on Iraqi civilians, but proclaimed that "resisting the occupier is a legitimate right." The speaker of Iraq's new parliament, Hajem al-Hasani, was even more explicit, calling for those fighting the U.S. forces to be given a direct political role via the formation of a political wing...
...mail, which Blickstead gave to The Crimson, was characterized by a mix of personal and professional comments, but contained no explicit threats to Munaim...
...body of the e-mail—“obviously [from] someone who was angry”—contained “an explicit midget pornography photograph,” Chalfin said...