Word: forearmed
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...respect his freedom of speech, but he abuses that freedom," says a protest leader and immigration consultant Ky Ngo. "Exercising your First Amendment rights is one thing; causing dissension in your community is another," says Vietnam vet Larkin Kennedy, whose forearm is tattooed with the image of a Vietnamese lady he left behind. "I used to rent videos here, and I regret it deeply," says Linda Nguyen, a student at the University of California at Long Beach. She sniffs: "His videos were copies and so blurry...
...girth of Mark McGwire's forearm is greater than that of a large man's neck; his biceps look as if they've been inflated with a bicycle pump. Your hand could conceivably disappear in his; if he chose, it could certainly be crushed. Yet something other than his pure physicality strikes you about McGwire. Revealed in his deep green eyes is a self-knowledge as imposing as his size and strength: I am who I am, what you see is what you get, and if I'm going to hit 70 home runs, well, that's what...
...years he had been under evaluation for the long-planned operation, Clint Hallam passed himself off as an Australian businessman who had lost his right hand and forearm in a logging accident. Turns out he really lost it using a power saw in a New Zealand jail, where he had been locked up for fraud. Hallam finally came clean two days before the operation, which was performed late last month in a French hospital. A Perth newspaper later reported that he has a court date in Australia in January on seven more fraud charges...
...seems that the tendons, nerves and soft tissue of my wrists and forearm protested my indulgence in one of the finer things of college dining. Riding my bike, taking notes in class, carrying heavy items and even opening doors are prohibited or limited activities. It's like being imprisoned...
...lifestyle has flashed before me: the all-nighters for Computer Science 50 and philosophy papers; the 700 e-mails per month; the incessant clicking of the mouse button for web browsing. Frighteningly, this evening I started to have a painful tugging in one of the tendons of my right forearm. I did not write my tutorial paper for fear of doing further damage. I have begun to enlist friends and strangers in the computer lab to type messages...