Word: henning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...form, it was most likely confined to a small cage with seven other chickens. Inside this cell, the chicken was either “shocked” through starvation or disoriented by artificial lighting to overeat and, as a result, suffer obesity conditions like heart attacks. Ultimately, when the hen became huge, it was hung upside-down, had its legs snapped into metal shackles, its throat slit open, only to be immersed in scalding hot water for feather removal while staying conscious through the entire process...
...focusing on the roles Italian and U.S. banks may have played in the affair. One potential winner: the Italian stock market. Family businesses have traditionally shunned it, but Corbetta believes firms with ambitious growth plans may now have little choice but to go public. French Smokers Say Non W hen the money is right, many French smokers would rather quit than fight. That was the logic behind last week's hike in French cigarette prices - the third in a series of increases over the past year that have made the deadly habit 30-50% more expensive for France...
...December 1942 New England Quarterly. And it turns out that Puritans were by no means the prudes we imagined. One Boston minister, for example, criticized “that Popish conceit of the Excellency of Virginity.” Court records, Morgan writes, reveal that “[w]hen fornication, adultery, rape, or even buggery and sodomy appeared, [members of the Puritan establishment] were not surprised, nor were they so severe with the offenders as their codes of law would lead one to believe. Sodomy, to be sure, they usually punished with death; but rape, adultery, and fornication they...
...monitors are for-profit, some with a history of doing business with the companies they’re monitoring. Especially given the recent record of failed corporate self-supervision and political sponsorship (think Enron), Harvard should know better than to let the fox guard the hen house...
...Brighton's large gay population generates an infectious blend of style and fun, but then this Sussex city has attracted pleasure seekers since the Prince Regent and his rakish following decamped there in the early 19th century. Today, boisterous hen parties, clubbers and convention delegates come for dining and nightlife that reach metropolitan levels of sophistication?without the associated expense...