Word: legging
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...says, "I'm really worried one of my reporters is going to get thrashed." Bollywood producer Pritish Nandy fears conservative critics will use the scandal to attack both journalism and entertainment. "Did you know Lady Chatterley's Lover is still banned in India? This only gives a leg up to the crazy prudes who think that's a good idea." Tehelka boss Tarun Tejpal knows how aggressive journalism can boomerang. After publishing a report on alleged corruption in arms sales under the previous government, his main investor was jailed, advertisers were warned off, and staff so tied up in court...
...close-up view of the war's mayhem, almost as intense as in Iraq itself. After being wheeled through Landstuhl's doors one snowy morning in late January, Brent Jurgersen, 42, a first sergeant from Low Moor, Iowa, was rushed into an operating room, where surgeons amputated his left leg at the knee. The day before, as Jurgersen led his Humvee through a village near Samarra...
...recovering at Landstuhl. Jurgersen, tall and powerfully built, insisted on returning to Iraq to complete the 1st Infantry Division's yearlong mission, which ended last month. "My husband's never not finished anything in his life," his wife, Karin, wrote in an e-mail a few days after his leg was amputated, adding that when he heard Time had seen him arrive at Landstuhl, "he asked that you don't make him a hero." Attached to the e-mail were photos of Jurgersen, leaning on a walker in the passage of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington...
...lifetime, the chickens are overcrowded inside filthy sheds on factory farms where they live amidst their own waste. But the most serious welfare problem for these birds is their selective breeding, which causes them to grow so quickly that they suffer from painful heart and lung ailments and crippling leg disorders. Thirty years ago, researchers reported in the Veternary Report, “We consider that birds might have been bred to grow so fast that they are on the verge of structural collapse.” Thirty years of further selective breeding have only exacerbated this trouble...
...whether he had noticed any of his teammates buying leg warmers...