Word: levies
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...Yorker Levi Browde, a 29-year-old software engineer and Falun Gong practitioner, struck first. "I wanted people in China to see that Falun Gong is embraced around the world," he says. So he and a friend took a taxi to Tiananmen Square on Feb. 11, unfurled a banner reading FALUN GONG IS GOOD and in seconds were carted away by police. Three days later, more than 40 foreign demonstrators raced through the square as police chased them past astonished Chinese tourists who were spending the weeklong holiday in the capital. The foreigners had come, said the state-run Xinhua...
There are some things in the world of Jobs that you can rely on. On warm days, he will always appear at work shoeless and in hiking shorts. The rest of the time, he will always wear Levi's jeans, no belt and one of the hundreds of black, mock-turtleneck shirts a clothing-designer chum made for him many years ago. (Not having to worry about what to wear to work every day allows him to concentrate more on work, he says.) And he will always take any opportunity he can to lay out the wider context, the framework...
...With all the hype and an ever-expanding business can LMF and A.Room keep it real? Already the group is doing songs and graffiti in San Miguel beer ads and performing in Levi's-sponsored concerts. Their possible salvation: laziness. It's been 14 months since their last album. "We really don't produce a lot," says Yan, as he holds his joint in the air and gestures toward the crew huddled around the PlayStation. "These guys are very lazy...
...Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered" by professor emerita at UC-Irvine Ruth Kluger (Feminist; November). "Calmly, and chillingly, relating the everyday events of her youth - Aryan students making colored paper swastikas and then asking Jewish students to judge them...Already compared by European critics to the work of Primo Levi and Elie Wiesel, this is an important addition to Jewish, Holocaust and women?s studies. FORECAST: This is a standout in the crowded field of Holocaust memoirs and should have strong sales...
Whole blood has a shelf life of six weeks, and donors must wait eight weeks before being eligible to give blood again, Levi said...