Word: ironized
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...truth hits me as the first full day at the Complete Retreat limps to an aching close: the other guests have succumbed to Stockholm syndrome. That's the phenomenon in which hostages fall in love with their captors. Some of these people have already endured the iron regime of Lisa Jeans - and have returned, of their own free will. Complete it may be, but the very name "retreat" is a misnomer. This isn't a refuge but a bracing course of exercise combined with a raw food diet, all designed by naturopath Jeans. Stern stuff, yet my fellow captives gaze...
Companies are less likely to recycle electronics than other waste, even though computers make dreadful trash. A desktop computer contains nearly 40 lbs. of plastic, lead, aluminum and iron, along with small amounts of arsenic, mercury, zinc and gold, and environmentalists are worried that the metals will leach into soil and water. But without national standards, some recyclers play fast and loose with the term. Some just shred waste. Others ship it overseas to China, Vietnam or India...
...their common penchant for intrigue and suspicion, that the rulers of China and the Roman Catholic Church have had a hard time getting along. Beginning five centuries ago, emissaries from the Vatican visited Beijing to seek permission to conduct missionary work in China. During the Qing dynasty they built iron globes and trellises for the Emperor--astronomical instruments that at the time were considered cutting-edge technology. That approach didn't work: a later Emperor banned all Christian missionary activity, sending the clerics packing. He kept the Vatican's gifts, however, on a tower overlooking the thick stone walls that...
...protest. Manuel Escelante, 46, a Honduran and Chicago Park District worker, was busy cleaning the very park that the organizers were using as a rallying point. ?I can?t leave my job,? he said, pointing to a line of leaves and rubbish left just outside the park?s wrought iron gates. ?This looks terrible. I?m with them, my heart, but I have a job to do. I have work...
...illegal (and won it on Friday when the girl left the country) who thought she should at least be allowed to finish high school before being deported. Verdonk's policies have made her by far the most divisive minister in the current government and earned her the moniker Iron Rita. While the left abhors her, Verdonk remains a popular favorite on the right. And that's mainly because the inflow of immigrants has slowed under her harsh regimen. The number of asylum seekers to the Netherlands has fallen by more than 80% since 2000; in the last two years...