Word: muted
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...first-cousin couple grieve for their young son who died of a rare blood disease. In the nearby city of Yan'an, a brother and sister squat in the mud-brick slums, signing a secret language to each other. Both Cao Shuai and Cao Jing were born deaf-mute. Everybody in the neighborhood thinks they know why: their parents are first cousins. And last month in Yan'an county, a severely retarded newborn girl was found abandoned by the side of a dirt road. Authorities tracked down her parents, only to find out they were a brother and sister, eking...
...frontman, on his tour of Africa with U.S. Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill "I've used the term breakthrough three times in my career. This is one of them." ? Larry Norton, doctor at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Center, on Novartis' Gleevec "What are they going to attack next, the mute button?" ? Ken Potashner, CEO of SONICblue, on efforts to stop digital video recorders from skipping commercials
Sure, I’ve had my share of awkward academic encounters. I taught a Monday section that was almost entirely mute except for the occasional sound of my voice, the dull hum of an electric clock, the gentle heave of someone’s hungover breathing and the faint notes of Led Zeppelin emanating from one student’s set of badly hidden headphones...
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...Each time, the government of the day gave implicit help to the lynch mobs by providing breathing space for hatred. Despite sufficient evidence of the coming firestorm, the police were kept immobile before and mute during the public assault, mayhem and murder. The guardians of the law handed selected areas for an average of two days to the lawless of their preference, while some group of Indians paid an indescribable price in blood. For these mass lynchings have an almost celebratory air. Mobs roam the street as if on some gruesome holiday during which they have been released from...