Word: lowing
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...difference between rats and human beings is that rats learn from experience. Excess will be back. It's just lying low until the storm passes. William Shallcross, WINTER PARK...
...Kremlin plans to retire about half the army's 300,000 aging officers over the next three to six years, and train hundreds of thousands of fresh, paid soldiers in modern warfare. But today's high school graduates were born when Russia's birth rate hit an all-time low in the early 1990s, and were raised during the disastrous Chechen war. Near the decrepit train station of Vladimir, a military town near Moscow, an army-recruiting center promises a life of adventure for those who sign up. THE ARMY OF RUSSIA - AN ARMY OF PROFESSIONALS, says a billboard, showing...
...back on," says Goldblum. Not having enough diapers, she realized, has far-reaching effects. "Most day-care centers require parents to provide their own," she says. And without day care, parents can't look for work or go to school. Cloth diapers don't help, because low-income families tend not to have washing machines or cars to get to the Laundromat. Moreover, she knew that babies who sit longer in their own waste get more diaper rashes and cry more. And she'd read the studies showing that more crying leads to more physical abuse...
...start the Diaper Bank (a name, she notes, that sounds less comical--and is easier to raise funds for--than the Toilet Paper Bank). These days, she gives away 200,000 diapers a month in Connecticut, mostly to public-housing authorities, tenants' groups and agencies that work with low-income families...
...sound demonstrably better, even to amateur ears. "That's a big selling point," says Adam Yauch of the Beastie Boys, who are in the midst of reissuing three of their early albums. "People who care about sound really care. Our records were too tinny and didn't have enough low end. We've fixed that...