Word: fortnightly
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...Nothing is easy here. Blinding, unseasonably fierce dust storms are turning the sky apocalyptic orange. The wind and sand blast the skin and destroy tents. Rain turns the desert into sludge. Troops wash their clothes in cardboard boxes lined with plastic bags, but socks and underwear can go a fortnight between washings. "We're not getting paid to smell pretty," says Lance Corporal Jason Wilebski, 19, queuing for a haircut. In these cramped quarters, tempers chafe. Some soldiers are not coping at all. One young man shot himself in the foot to earn a ticket home. Fights have broken...
Last year, actor and singer Nicholas Tse was convicted for letting his driver take the rap after Tse slammed his sports car into a guard rail. Still paying his debt to society, Tse tells TIME's Kate Drake about his fortnight in the slammer, what happened to that famous Ferrari and why he is still the baddest boy in Canto...
...huge military cargo ships left the U.S. for the Indian Ocean in the last fortnight...
...leaders to make his case for attacking Iraq. The Israelis are certainly taking no chances. Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ordered his military to complete its preparations for a U.S. attack on Iraq by early November. And Britain's Prime Minister Tony Blair will visit Bush in the next fortnight to discuss a battle plan, having promised his skeptical electorate (71 percent against a war in the most recent polls) to publish a dossier of compelling evidence of the danger posed by Saddam in the coming weeks...
...Mexican American who had learned to skate on rollers in the streets of San Bernadino, Calif., and Kwan, the star from La La Land, perhaps the country's most famous citizen of Asian descent. The Winter Olympics had never before looked like America, but during this night - this fortnight - they looked just like America...