Word: jowl
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...this made the flu virus a tenacious foe from the outset, but once humans invented farming and learned to cultivate animals, we made a bad situation much worse. All at once, chickens, ducks and pigs - which never had much to do with one another - began living cheek to jowl in high numbers and often unsanitary conditions. Farm families and people working in live markets then began mingling with the critters. That's a pathogenic speed blender, and the viruses have taken full advantage of it. "It's really an ecological issue," says Daszak...
...Faith requirement in the new General Education system, religion at Harvard seems to have completed its trajectory from prime focus of the classroom to just another extracurricular activity. On the Harvard website, “Religious Groups” inhabit a drop-down menu of activities cheek-by-jowl with “Academic & Pre-Professional,” “Arts and Performance,” “Athletics & Recreation,” “Media & Publications,” and “Public Service.” Being a person of faith is just...
...Hema knows that in two weeks she is to return to India to wed in an arranged marriage, she feels, in the liminal space of Rome, “free of her past and free of her future in a place where so many different time stood cheek by jowl like guests at a crowded party.” Attempting to live only in the present, the two sense “a newborn connection that could not be left unattended” and embark on a bittersweet affair. Their identity as a couple is fragile, though, and soon broken...
...postings in thousands of categories, ranging from “gigs” to “missed connections” to the somewhat worrisome “child-care.” Where else could a forum for “knitting & sewing” exist cheek by jowl with one for “kink & bdsm”? (Anywhere forums are categorized alphabetically, I suppose.) Craigslist standard policy gives each poster an e-mail address from which all replies are forwarded to his or her actual account, thereby providing a level of guaranteed anonymity that brings...
...decide to get a face-lift at age 77? -Anna Clark, BLOOMINGTON, IND.It's kind of funny, but I've been exposed to a lot of G-forces as a fighter pilot and in space. That caused a sagging jowl that needed some attention...