Word: flower
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After a three-year nuclear winter for initial public offerings (IPOs), some buds are finally pushing through the rubble. No one expects this scorched corner of the stock market to flower quickly, and IPOs are high-risk investments even in the best of times. Yet the allure of getting in early on a stock that just might pay your toddler's way through college is undeniable--and if you're ever going to plow this field, now is the time...
Politics in Cambodia can be a lethal business. In recent months, unknown assailants have murdered nearly a dozen people in what appear to be political vendettas. Last week, popular singer Touch Srey Nich, 24, was leaving a flower shop in Phnom Penh when four gunmen on motorbikes?two in military uniform?opened fire, killing Touch's 62-year-old mother and leaving the singer with multiple gunshot wounds to the face. (She is now in critical condition in a Bangkok hospital.) Touch is known by many as the "voice of Funcinpec"?the royalist opposition party?and her rendition of Funcinpec...
...role of Mosuo women that sets them apart from other cultures: they don't marry. Instead, womenfolk take a series of lovers throughout their lives, and the children of these "walking marriages" remain in their mothers' homes under a matriarch's supervision. Nor do women lie back in their "flower chambers," staring at the ceiling and thinking of the mother goddess. "You must please yourself first," Namu's mother instructed her, adding that "making love is very good for the skin...
...antipasto course is an unmatched sampling of underwater delights. There's carpaccio of swordfish, salmon or sea bass, flavored with olive oil, parsley and whole red peppercorn; steamed clams; sautéed mussels; lightly breaded and baked scallops on the half-shell; batter-fried jumbo shrimp and squash flower; and lightly fried fish. There are also delectable crustaceans - like the long and narrow clamlike canolicchi, a shellfish native to the warm Mediterranean waters. Then it's on to my favorite second course: oven-baked turbot with olive oil and potatoes. The simple seasoning, right touch of salt and high temperature...
...antipasto course is an unmatched sampling of underwater delights. There's carpaccio of swordfish, salmon or sea bass, flavored with olive oil, parsley and whole red peppercorn; steamed clams; saut?ed mussels; lightly breaded and baked scallops on the half-shell; batter-fried jumbo shrimp and squash flower; and lightly fried fish. There are also delectable crustaceans?like the long and narrow clamlike canolicchi, a shellfish native to the warm Mediterranean waters...