Word: flushes
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STRANGE BREW "Young sister, you drink ruou?you must have some more," the flush-faced butcher insisted, waving the bottle in my direction. With the glowing benevolence of a newfound friend, he poured the berry red medicinal rice wine into tiny teacups. Someone shouted the ubiquitous toast "Mot tram phan tram" (which means 100%) as we downed the liquor with one gulp and, in my case, with a grimace. Binh and his fellow butchers had been sitting around the tea stall in Cao Bang market for an hour, and we were on our third round of ruou and feeling little...
...Those who raise an eyebrow at the idea of a potted history of the commode will be bowled over by the Sulabh International Museum of Toilets. A spotlessly clean display lays subcontinental claim to the development of flush-toilet technology?first utilized in 2500 BC in Mohenjo-daro, in now modern-day Pakistan. Upon the ancient city's collapse, however, such innovation became lost in the bowels of time, only to be implemented again in the court of Queen Elizabeth I, who had a very simple one installed in her London home...
...Harvard’s schools will be solicited to donate to a new University Fund for Graduate Student Aid, Summers said. And, for the first time, formal incentives will be created to encourage these donors to support priorities at the University’s smaller and less financially flush schools...
...While international competition was the watchword for exporters, the government sought universal employment and stability at home. With coffers flush from the nation's high personal-savings rate, the government launched massive public-works projects designed to rebuild a smashed infrastructure, provide jobs and spur internal demand. For the domestic industries, Japan pursued consistently protectionist, anti-competitive policies, with the intention of keeping as many companies afloat as possible. "Ten percent of the country was allowed to be capitalist, and the other 90% was socialist," says Eisuke Sakakibara, director of the Global Security Research Center at Keio University...
...audience in Serbia. But Seselj's re-emergence reflects a more general frustration among Serbian voters with their democratically elected leadership, which, two years after Milosevic's ouster, has yet to produce the kind of economic results that many Serbs had hoped for. Seselj insists he is running to flush out corruption and succor the poor. But for Serbs like Nikola Barovic, a human rights lawyer who was once kicked in the head by Seselj's bodyguard, his campaign means "the catastrophe of the Milosevic era is still going on." Next week's election represents Serbs' third try in less...