Word: hatched
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...something of a disappointment to discover the sails were pure decoration: diesel engines power the vessel. Other modernizations, however, met with wholehearted approval. Below deck, the Huang Hai is loaded with creature comforts. It has eight twin-bedded cabins with attached bathrooms and hot showers. Inside the pilot's hatch is a consoling array of gadgetry, including a global positioning satellite system. And the galley is a paneled dining hall that seats 16 with a magnificent solid-wood table and, behind the stove, a chef from Hanoi. At lunch, he piles plates high with seafood bought fresh from local sampans...
Instead, it has provided the central predicament of his young presidency. It is an issue that has placed Senate pro-lifers like Orrin Hatch and Strom Thurmond on the side of those who want federal funding, and brought out stars like Mary Tyler Moore and Michael J. Fox to speak on behalf of juvenile diabetics and people with Parkinson's disease, who might benefit from the research. For Bush, the past few weeks provided a supreme opportunity. For a man who has sometimes seemed to lack the gravitas that the presidency demands, the stem-cell debate offered the chance...
...returned to my tapes, and began trying to follow along to the audio instructions. I had already looked at the first pages of the notebook, and knew that there was a page identifying the various raised patterns--cross-hatch, dots, vertical lines. There were symbols to identify the top of the page and the doors in an architectural drawing. The tape directed me to a tactile drawing of one of Picasso’s paintings, and my fingers falteringly followed the audio prompts...
That incident, along with complaints by Levang and other residents' families, prompted Minnesota attorney general Mike Hatch to sue Alterra for consumer fraud. The suit was settled, with Alterra agreeing to pay for an outside monitor. The center hired more staff, including a housekeeper, and modified its brochure, replacing the phrase "professionally trained" staff with "trained" staff. But for many of its other Minnesota facilities, Alterra insists having staff provide "holistic" care is effective...
...their rules governing assisted living, most, like Michigan, have deferred to the wishes of the industry. Many of Kentucky's new regulations apply only to facilities that have yet to be built. Alabama has just six inspectors to oversee more than 300 assisted-living centers. In Minnesota attorney general Hatch proposed a consumer-rights bill that would require facilities to disclose fully such key information as staff training and treatment protocol. But even that bill was watered down so much--it includes no required training or inspection--that Hatch now admits that "it won't do much...