Word: mother
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...destiny that links Bella to Edward? That's what she feels shortly after she leaves desert-dry Phoenix, where her mother has just married a semipro baseball player, to spend time with her police-chief father (Billy Burke) in rainy, misty Forks, Wash. Bella calls herself "the suffering-in-silence type," but instantly all the nice kids in her junior class are clamoring to be her BFF. Not so Edward. His pained, brooding, utterly irresistible gaze says, I have depths you don't want to dive in. After sitting next to Bella once, he has to take some sick days...
When Kensuke Onishi decided to use his foreign university degree and fluent English to help internally displaced refugees in Kurdish Iraq, his Japanese mother's friends told her they understood if she wanted to weep. After all, shouldn't a dutiful Japanese son return home and work for a big company, like the droves of salarymen before him? But in 1996, Onishi founded one of Japan's largest international NGOs, Peace Winds Japan, which operates everywhere from Sudan to East Timor. Today, the 41-year-old Osaka native has noticed that his countrymen no longer consider helping less fortunate foreigners...
...born in Taiwan in 1968. His father died when he was a toddler and his mother, an English professor, moved with her two sons to the U.S. in 1978. According to published reports, the only English word that Yang and his younger brother knew when they arrived in America was "shoe." The family eventually settled in San Jose, Calif...
...recipient of the transplant surgery, which took place in June, is Claudia Lorena Castillo Sánchez, a 30-year-old Colombian mother of two who lives in Barcelona. A cough she developed in 2004 was later diagnosed as tuberculosis, and by March of this year, her condition worsened to the point where one bronchus - the extension of the trachea that connects to the lung itself - was blocked. The only possible conventional treatment was to remove one of her lungs, a procedure that would have dramatically impaired her quality of life...
...further emboldened by the jurisdictional difficulty of figuring out where to put arrested pirate suspects on trial. Strict rules of engagement also prevent foreign navies from attacking suspected pirate vessels unless they are caught carrying out a raid. That means that patrol boats can rarely interdict the pirate "mother ships" that ply international waters, directing the speedboats to their prey...