Word: junking
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...shuttle-ride of shame home from the Quad 7) Quadling – someone who lives in the Quad 8) The ’Berg – where freshman find their missing 15 pounds 9) Ho-worthy – whatchu gonna do with all that junk? 10) Billy Jim – Williams James Hall 11) “lib-in it up” – an awful night spent in a library, and not at all similar to “livin it up” 12) DHA – student whose class...
...There are still reports... of people trying to build bombs in Sinaa right now," Capt. Miller told a group of civic, business and religious leaders who met clandestinely Friday at a Marine outpost amid the junk heap of Fallujah's former industrial hub. "We don't need any more gunfire; we don't need any more bullets; we don't need any more explosions," he said. "This area is very important to Fallujah. No more suicide bombers should be here.... Let's get people back to work and force the insurgents...
Schools have provided a healthier environment for students since 2000, says a report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nutrition and physical activity have improved, but the report notes that changes still need to be made, since many schools continue to sell junk food and sugary soda...
...JUNK-FOOD BANS Junk food in vending machines was prohibited by just 4% of school districts in 2000, a number that jumped to nearly 30% in 2006. In 2000, 1% of districts banned junk food during school parties. In 2006 almost 12% prohibited...
Chabon is playing a double game here: he's a Pulitzer winner with the verbal chops of a mandarin writing in the voice of a junk-sick 1950s pulp hack who dreams of being a Pulitzer winner. He seems to find the masquerade liberating. For once he never has to stop the action or worry about the prose being too purple or not purple enough. Gentlemen contains only trace amounts of irony. Best of all--and this is good for Chabon, who, unlike Updike, has a sentimental streak--the characters feel emotions only when they want to, and never more...