Word: leanse
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This is a political loser." So Karl Rove has been telling President Bush about the battle over stem-cell research. Not exactly nuanced analysis from the President's chief strategist. Rove is stuck with the unenviable task of studying the science and politics of the issue and delivering a recommendation...
“I have to be ready—it’s really close between several girls right now,” Taylor said. “I think it’ll be a straight line at the finish, and whoever leans hardest is going to win...
In other words, he isn't likely to turn Japan upside down. True, he did appoint a Cabinet that is younger and includes more women and more non-politicians than usual--notably Japan's first female Foreign Minister, Makiko Tanaka. But it's hard to find a clear pattern: one...
In a small, hot room in Caloocan city, one of Manila's shoddy suburbs, a 21-year-old man-child perches on a chair and turns the fan up to high. Yellow paint peels from the walls. There is no running water. The bed is a dirty mattress on a...
Sitting on the blue vinyl flooring of her Bangkok hut, Jacky leans her bare back against the plank wall, her dragon tattoos glistening with sweat as she trims her fingernails with a straight razor. It has been two days--no, three--without sleep, sitting in this hut and smoking the...