Word: horning
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...Sitting on the back counter in the conference room, with his gray hair swept across his forehead and his horn-rimmed glasses facing us, he asked each intern a series of questions to test us out, get to know us better. When he asked one girl what she wanted to do after college, she said law school; he affirmed that as a secure path. Another intern said that she really wanted to go into journalism; he asked, “Are you sure?” When a third intern told him she was a literature major at Bard...
...between your temples, the width of your nose and the exact position of your eyes and ears. He'll then photograph your head and hand-draw a few sample designs based on your face shape and eyebrow line. The frames can be built from titanium, bloc acetate or buffalo horn, and colored to complement your skin and hair tones. This couture-design process doesn't come cheap: expect to pay an eye-watering $8,000. If that's too much, Davies also offers a customizing service through some 500 opticians across the world. For around $800, you'll be able...
...York City • drivers in are found to be America's angriest and most aggressive - "most likely to wave their fists or arms... most likely to lay on the horn... most likely to make some sort of obscene gesture" - in road rage survey...
...Production of the egg-shaped vehicle, which has a range of 99 miles (160 km) on a single charge, kicked off this week; fleet sales will start in Japan next month and the car is expected to reach U.S. buyers by the end of next year. Tooting its own horn, Mitsubishi is calling the new i-MiEV "a pioneer to open the door to the next 100 years...
...warning this week from the British aid group Oxfam that the humanitarian crisis in Somalia is the worst in Africa is not new. Last year, the U.N. called the situation in the Horn of Africa nation the world's worst. But Oxfam's is a much needed reminder of the scale of the catastrophe. One million Somalis are refugees. Two million need food. For most of these, malnutrition rates are beyond the U.N. threshold definition of an emergency. Around 400,000 refugees are in a single sprawling camp at Afgooye outside Mogadishu; 70,000 have arrived in the last month...