Word: grown
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Children in tears. Women with hands over their faces. Grown men holding their hair, mouths agape, as if they had just witnessed a horrible implosion...
...unit set up by the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (MASSPIRG), a nonprofit advocacy organization that provides support for student activists, will also hold a press conference before tomorrow’s 11 a.m. hearing. MASSPIRG Student Chapters Program Director Saffron E. Zomer said that textbook prices have grown prohibitively high for students. “Students are paying about $900 a year in textbooks, with textbook rates going up at about four times the rate of inflation,” Zomer said. According to a 2006 MASSPIRG report, 77 percent of surveyed Massachusetts professors said that sales representatives rarely...
...businesses and unveiling the disastrous "Burmese Way to Socialism." Paranoid about maintaining power above all else, the army has repeatedly turned its guns against its own people, most tragically in 1988 when a student-led protest movement was crushed, leaving some 3,000 dead. Even as the masses have grown poorer, the military has enriched itself through timber and natural-gas deals. In 2005, the ruling junta mysteriously moved the nation's capital from Rangoon to a new city called Naypyidaw, carved out of the jungle at a cost of hundreds of millions of dollars. Last year, a samizdat video...
Delhi's strategy is threefold. Its initial overtures to Burma's military leaders came as India faced a growing insurgency in its northeast. Many of the rebel groups in that region are based and train across the border in Burma. As India has grown friendlier with Burma's generals the two countries have worked together - with some limited success - on eradicating the northeastern insurgents...
...someone to emulate. "Looking at my ad, girls with anorexia would say to themselves that they have to stop dieting," he said. "When you do something extreme, there are always people who oppose it. It shouldn't be the photos that shock, but the reality." The fashion industry has grown accustomed to watching its waiflike, barely clad female models slither down the runway. Toscani hopes they never look the same way again...