Word: hammerism
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...blood," Christinet comments, "but Bruno sewed it for me with a needle and thread." The two men spent three weeks in Sarawak, most of it hiding from police. They also pursued an abortive attempt to order four tons of 25-cm nails for the Penan to hammer into tree trunks, Christinet says. Similar tactics were employed by antilogging groups in the U.S. during the 1990s, sometimes resulting in severe injuries to loggers when chainsaws met the imbedded steel nails...
...Dark than, say, Foghat. But even we alternateens with blue-collar parents saw ourselves as separate from our classmates with Camaros, Judas Priest albums and plans to work in the Ford plant after graduation. In my hometown, where driving a foreign car was just shy of flying the hammer and sickle on your lawn, I listened to the Femmes while riding in my best friend Dan's beat-up VW squareback. (Is it just coincidence that by and large, the car companies now borrowing our beloved music are imports...
...these "remittances" are now the fourth largest source of income. Both governments pretend that 3 million illegal Mexicans live in the States; both know the real number is closer to 4.5 million. And so for the past several months, lawyers and diplomats from both sides have been trying to hammer out a new deal. The talks began after Fox played host to Bush at his ranch in San Cristobal in February...
...here mainly to partake of the opium scene, and another 100 stick around because potent, green, budded marijuana sells for $1 an ounce. (Both drugs are illegal in Laos, though the laws are loosely enforced.) Since opening up to tourism in the early '90s, this sleepy communist country?the hammer and sickle still sags from most flagpoles?has welcomed rising numbers of visitors curious about a place closed to the West since the Indochina wars...
...tortuous and subjective process-and it's precisely what federal legislators now need to go through, on the grandest of all possible scales, as they meet to hammer out the differences between the education bills recently passed by the House and Senate. While the Bush administration is already congratulating itself for pushing through a "monumental achievement with bipartisan support," the real work has yet to be done. All that's guaranteed right now is that every child in America will be tested every year in grades 3 through 8 in math and reading. But such tests will mean nothing (except...