Word: momentous
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...month of paid leave in which to use it. Kidd will also serve as a chair of the Board of Directors of the Brookline Community Foundation. Kidd said she hopes to find a way to continue working with college students, though she is leaving her options open at the moment. “I’m trying not to get myself too committed,” Kidd said. “I want to keep myself open to this new period of exploration.” —Staff writer Lauren D. Kiel can be reached at lkiel@fas.harvard.edu...
What is puzzling, however, is the WHO's decision to escalate the alert now, when the world has most likely missed its chance to contain the virus. When the WHO's pandemic alert system was first conceived, phase 4 was intended to indicate the moment when a new flu virus had been identified and could spread effectively from person to person (as Asia's H5N1's bird flu virus, which reached phase 3, has never been able to do), but was still limited enough that health officials could launch a global effort to contain it and snuff it out with...
...stood on the kill floor, I watched the moment when each pig, emerging from the chute, sensed its fate; the sudden piercing squeal followed by the too-late attempt to turn and run—some pigs literally attempting to scramble up vertical walls—as metal shackles were clamped around their ankles. And I watched as the shackles hoisted each pig into the air and as the slaughterer’s knife sent blood splattering across my overalls...
Most athlete autobiographies are pretty mundane and predictable, but the opening sentence of your book certainly grabs the reader: "I'll kill all y'all," the drunk with the shotgun raged. You then detail your father's abuse of you and your brothers, and the moment your family stood up to him and forced him to leave for good. What made you want to open up about all this? I think because every opinion has been out there about me, and no one really knew who I was. I think people just portrayed me as this person that had everything...
...believe these people? They always lie." At the same time, however, everyone was glued to the latest. Another guest read out from his Blackberry, driving everybody crazy with minute by minute bulletins. "Maybe this time is true," he said. "the U.S. Embassy is closing until, at the moment, Wednesday, and they do not do that." Then he added: "Spain has... a travel advisory." Then... "[The World Health Organization (WHO)] is worried and sending people to Mexico...