Word: ironed
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...personally chose Spain's King, who jailed homosexuals. Today, I can spout republicanism in my village bar to Rafael, a captain in the Guardia Civil reserve. He can try to shout me down with "Viva el Rey, Viva Leonor!" Yes, semantic democracy is definitely more fun than iron dictatorship. And Franco? May he rust in peace...
...What House are you in?” wasn’t a vapid question. Adams was artsy. Eliot was snooty. Lowell was brainy. Mather was jock-y. Sure, there are potential problems with racial self-segregation and intra-house homogeneity, but flattening these wrinkles with the iron of randomization was a quick and ultimately careless fix, one that has resulted largely in the social sterilization of Harvard. Unfortunately, in an attempt to pick up the social slack, final clubs have instead taken the heat...
...fish compared to the bandits who strike in Asia's Malacca Straits and South China Sea. But over the past seven months, Somali pirates have attacked 25 vessels, including the Semlow in June, another ship carrying food aid in September, a Maltese-registered cargo ship carrying 15 tons of iron ore, and, just last weekend, a cruise ship with some 300 American and British holidaymakers aboard. (Though the pirates fired semiautomatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, the ship's crew used an on-board "acoustic bang" to scare the pirates off, according to a spokeman for the liner.) Maritime...
Human Radiation Experiments The Department of Energy said last week that 750 poor women who went to Vanderbilt University for free prenatal care in the 1940s were fed radioactive pills as part of a government experiment to study the absorption of iron among pregnant women. The tests are blamed for the cancer deaths of at least three children born to these women. It is not yet known whether the subjects were told what was in the pills...
...ultimately, even if some of the pieces are too half-baked to win any artistic “Iron Chef” competitions, “Stratification” presents a rare opportunity to interact with dynamic works...