Word: fainted
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...facing the faint but recognizable beginnings of an environmental groundswell, the White House appears to be ready to rehabilitate the President's eco-image. Accompanied by Colin Powell and EPA head Christie Whitman, the President stepped into the Rose Garden Thursday and announced he would sign a treaty phasing out the worldwide use of "persistent organic pollutants," or POPs...
...their life--about 50 million in the U.S. by some estimates--are everywhere. They may be like "Beth," a pseudonym, a middle school student in Boston whose hemophobia, or fear of blood, was so severe that even a figure of speech like "cut it out" could make her faint. Or they may be like "Jean," 38, an executive assistant in New Jersey who is so terrified of balloons that just walking into a birthday party can make her break out in a sweat...
...Women sometimes have to leave or just faint when they hear some of the show. It just brings back memories," Ensler said...
Unfortunately, there are no good grounds to suppose that the Taliban can be deflected from their benighted campaign. Even the Metropolitan Museum's offer to purchase and transport pieces of the two Bamiyan Buddhas to New York was rebuffed by Taliban officials. Last week a very faint ray of hope faded when Pakistan, the Taliban's closest ally, failed to dissuade them from going ahead with their plans. Pierre Lafrance, a UNESCO special envoy, was sent to talk to Taliban mullahs in Kandahar, but he found that "there was not the slightest hint of bargaining in their position. Their standard...
...Spice Girl," she doesn't actually want to be in the Spice Girls. "It doesn't really feel that natural to me anymore," said Chisholm. The Spice Girls weathered the loss of Geri Halliwell in 1998, but Chisholm is believed to be the group's best singer--faint praise, perhaps, but when you're an act more critically reviled than 98[degrees], you take praise where you can get it. Chisholm released a solo album in 1999 and plans to begin another in May. A spokesman for her former bandmates said, "There are no Spice Girls plans at the moment...