Word: havoc
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...expense many Chinese are willing to swallow these days, along with large helpings of deep-fried pork balls and buckets of KFC. More than 70 million Chinese are classified by the government health ministry as overweight, owing to the fast food and fast living that is playing havoc with upwardly mobile mainlanders' waistlines. "In the past, everyone was so poor," says Zhao Min, 28, a Shenzhen dentist who practices combined yoga/ballet three times a week. "People didn't have the time or money to spend on themselves, but at least they were healthier because they ate simple things and exercised...
...glaring lapse, and there's a raging dispute over the machines the TSA has selected for the job. Plus, as the LAX shooting at an El Al check-in counter revealed, there are plenty of other places in an airport that are vulnerable to people intent on causing havoc...
...cream shop, where, when you asked for peppermint stick ice cream, no one ever said, 'It's seasonal.'" But even ice cream gets boring after a while, so Susie turns her attention back to earth. She watches as the shock waves of her death spread slow-motion havoc among her family and friends - her brave but vulnerable dad, her precocious younger sister, her bewildered classmates, the boy she had a crush on. She watches dispassionately as her killer - the fastidious, emotionally damaged Mr. Harvey - carefully disperses her body parts (the hunt for Mr. Harvey gives the book a fierce narrative...
...glaring lapse, and there's a raging dispute over the machines the TSA has selected for the job. Plus, as the LAX shooting at an El Al check-in counter revealed, there are plenty of other places in an airport that are vulnerable to people intent on causing havoc...
...even ice cream gets boring after a while, so Susie turns her attention back to earth. She watches as the shock waves of her death spread slow-motion havoc among her family and friends--her brave but vulnerable dad, her precocious younger sister, her bewildered classmates, the boy she had a crush on. She watches dispassionately as her killer--the fastidious, emotionally damaged Mr. Harvey--carefully disperses her body parts (the hunt for Mr. Harvey gives the book a fierce narrative energy). She watches her mother's slow, grieving slide into adultery with a dry-eyed pity that's heartbreaking...