Word: galle
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Sure, it will benefit Democrats to universalize voter registration, and self-interest is a much more powerful motivator than respect for rights. But the Democrats would clearly have the latter on their side as well, if they had the gall to bring the issue up. When the government takes a right away, or makes it harder to exercise, that’s a much more serious offense than an individual’s abuse of her prerogative. So, ignore conservatives’ crocodile tears over voter fraud; New Jersey may be home to money-laundering mayors and kidney-selling rabbis...
...relishes (to our unending entertainment) relaying strange customs and fantastical tales he's encountered, like the Khmer women who urinate standing up ("and that is really funny"); the ceremonial, contracted deflowering of young girls by priests, which Zhou details in one of his longest passages; the stealing of human gall bladders; and the nine-headed serpent spirit that turns into a woman and with which the King must couple each night in a chamber at the top of the Phimeanakas (which is still standing). "If for a single night he stays away," Zhou tells us, "he is bound to suffer...
...Surgery (ASMBS), researchers reported safety data indicating that bariatric surgery is no riskier than other common abdominal and GI procedures, with an overall mortality risk within 90 days of 0.112%. Complication rates from bariatric procedures also put them in line with other common surgeries, such as hip replacements and gall bladder operations. "The clear message is that the very low mortality signals a high degree of safety compared to conventional thinking, particularly among the public, about the risks of bariatric surgery," says Eric DeMaria, vice chair of the department of surgery at Duke University, who presented the data...
Sessions, Sen. Jeff •gall to claim that a factor in the support of for the continued detention of prisoners at Guantanamo is the availability for them of "tropical breezes...
...know what you're looking at. Take bear for example. Do you have a hunting license? Does it apply to this specific type of bear and in the specific location where you caught it? Was it within the bag limit? Was it in season? You can't tattoo a gall bladder and you don't know if it's legal or not. It's the same with caviar. You have legal caviar, illegal caviar, illegal caviar being passed off as legal to escape detection, and legal caviar passed off as illegal to get a higher price. How do you tell...