Word: grayness
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...China's private-security business. The body-guarding profession was officially abolished along with other "feudal" trades after the Communists came to power in 1949, and baobiao, the Chinese word for bodyguard, retains a tinge of ill-repute. Because of this political legacy, the industry still occupies a legal gray area, but bodyguards are now in such demand that the top earners can make $5,000 a month. "As China's economy develops, safety problems will increase, and that means businesses like ours will continue to grow," says Li Hongqi, whose recently established Beijing firm supplies the man who shadows...
...emotions." While Parker acknowledges that sometimes people who don't need SSRIs receive them, he doesn't think the drugs should be confined to those with severe depression. "Anxious worriers are the new breed of depression," he says. "They're the ones for whom it's nothing like as gray, and the suicide risk is not as great, but they're living lives of quiet desperation, or irritability, or crabbiness, (feelings) that drive their depression." He's concerned about the backlash against the drugs, which he concedes were oversold at first. His worry is that before long authorities, influenced...
...lenses. Purchase requires fitting by a professional; monthly replacement recommended. To Learn More: nikevision.com & bauschlomb.com These amber-tinted MaxSight contact lenses from Nike filter out blue light to reduce glare and improve the visibility of baseballs, tennis balls and other moving targets. A gray-green version gives golfers an edge by enhancing the dips and curves of a distant putting green. Orioles second baseman Brian Roberts credits his MaxSights with boosting his batting average last season; Michelle Wie wore them during her professional debut. The lenses, like those in any decent pair of sunglasses, also filter out ultraviolet rays. Next...
...Zubeidi was killed Tuesday, driving near his home on the main street of al-Adil neighborhood in western Baghdad. Fellow defense attorney Thamer Hamoud al Khuzaie had been riding with al-Zubeidi and was wounded when four gunmen emerged from a gray Opel and riddled their red Proton sedan with bullets. Police and U.S. troops arrived at the scene and took the injured al-Khuzaie to an American hospital in Baghdad...
...tsunami in Somalia, was cutting its way north at a steady 12 knots, some 55 km from the Somali coast. Then, out of the dark, came a burst of gunfire. "I saw the flash of five to 10 shots," says Mahalingam, 58, a short Sri Lankan man with a gray beard and 20 years' experience on the high seas. "Straight away I knew it must be pirates...