Word: fleshly
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...Before the troubles had run their course, Lloyd Parry would see men eating human flesh in Borneo, bodies burning in the streets of Jakarta, and a seemingly unassailable government collapse. In the Time of Madness is a deeply felt account of his time covering Indonesia's implosion; what it lacks in depth or context, it makes up for in sensitivity and humility. This is a book less about Indonesia than about Lloyd Parry himself, how the carnage he witnesses burrows into his soul, leaving him sickeningly vulnerable when the time of madness reaches its horrifying climax in East Timor. There...
...Africa Economic Summit in Cape Town last week, says that "predatory looting of Africa's ocean assets" could destabilize already fragile societies. Tanzanian President Benjamin Mkapa says there is "a lot of resentment among people who see themselves left with the scales and bones while all the fish flesh is taken away to Europe." Conflict fish, anyone? - By Simon Robinson Read All Over It has been an extraordinarily positive 12 months for the global newspaper industry," cheered Timothy Balding, head of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), last week. Worldwide daily circulation grew 2% in 2004, reaching €95 million...
...Beirut landmark, an explosion caused by a 1,000-kg bomb turned the site into an inferno. Hariri's charred body was identified by a ring on his finger and a swatch of fabric from the necktie he had put on that morning, which had burned into his flesh. Fleihan died two months later in a French hospital...
...anchor for the University’s Allston plans, which were first made public in an October 2003 letter to the community from University President Lawrence H. Summers. The Allston undergraduate life task force—one of four task forces formed by Summers last year to flesh out a more concrete vision for Allston—embraced undergraduate houses in Allston, recommending that Harvard relocate Quad houses to Allston and potentially construct new Houses as well...
...look at Greg Zielinski--Z to just about everyone on post--and for a split second you wonder whether he is actually built out of some material other than flesh and blood. Everything about him shines--his nearly shaved head, every buckle and boot, his manner. His father says if Zielinski hadn't gone to West Point, he probably would have been president of a fraternity. He is pathologically social, both liked and looked up to by fellow cadets, especially those who bleed Army green. "Z?" they say. "He's huah," delivering the words with the appropriate Southern drawl--"heezoowah...