Word: lingers
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...reception from its audiences. Like U.S. TV, the Arab networks show briefings, sound bites from George W. Bush and Tony Blair, allied advances and even interviews with coalition troops (al-Jazeera has a reporter embedded with U.S. forces). But they also show charred bodies lying beside gutted cars. Cameras linger over dead allied soldiers and bandaged Iraqi children. Mourning families wail, and hospitals choke with bleeding and burned civilians. If the war on American TV has been a splendid fireworks display and tank parade punctuated by press conferences, on al-Jazeera et al., war is hell...
...pernicious transmission modes might be more prevalent than first thought. Could it be spread through contact with contaminated surfaces, such as elevator buttons? Through water, possibly flowing in sewage pipes? Through rodent feces, as is the case for many other viruses? Or how about through aerosolized droplets, which can linger for hours in places such as elevator lobbies long after the infected person leaves? So far, nobody knows...
...plying the waters of the South China Sea. Instead of hawking trinkets on the beach, the town's children are commercial fishermen, too, venturing out to sea in thung chai, two-meter-wide circular baskets made of bamboo and pitch that can only be paddled standing up. Old superstitions linger: before a new boat makes its maiden voyage, families paint eyes on its bow. If left unpainted and hence blind, they believe, their vessel will never find fish...
...daily special of two different types of rabbit—leg stewed with spring greens and loin stuffed with mushrooms and wrapped in pancetta—was superb. The stew in particular was a juicy and soft-tangled reduction, perfectly offset by the bite of the greens, and will linger long in the memory...
...much as ordinary garlic. But ramsons are worth it, says Olaf Schnelle, co-founder of the Grimmen-based mail and Internet order firm Essbare Landschaften (Edible Landscapes), which sells 150 different herbs to customers across Europe, because of their special taste - and the fact that they don't linger on the breath. (To judge for yourself, make some pesto using ramsons instead of basil and toss with walnut fettuccini.) The growing interest in local herbs and roots has been cultivated by a general trend toward a vegetarian diet. In 1992, the average German consumed 82 kg of vegetables annually...