Word: nailed
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...Nigeria, after immunizations were curtailed due to rumors that the program was a Western plot to sterilize Muslim girls. By the end of 2003, another 447 children in Africa had been paralyzed, and health officials are worried the tide has turned against them. "This year is the real nail biter," says Dr. Bruce Aylward, coordinator of the WHO's polio-eradication program. "Under a thousand cases is an unnatural state for an epidemic disease. Either we force it down to zero, or it is going to blow up and paralyze hundreds of thousands of children every year...
...After a nail-biter of a 5-4 loss to Princeton handed the Harvard women’s squash team its first Ivy League loss in three years, the Crimson still had a chance to claim a share of its fourth-straight league title with a win over Yale. But the young, feisty Bulldog squad dismantled Harvard 7-2 and the Ivy crown slipped out of reach for the first time in any of the current players’ Crimson careers...
...shame that, in the year 2004, the reasons for opening the civil institution of marriage to all need to be reiterated. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, ruling this fall that the Commonwealth’s constitution bars the state from refusing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, hit the nail on the head: banning homosexuals from marrying within their gender creates an artificial, inherently unfair second class of citizens. Massachusetts’ denial of marriage licenses to gays and lesbians was hardly the first time that those in charge of the American government did their best to deny its promise...
...Asia's War with Heart Disease" hit the nail on the head when it said we have become victims of progress, an unhealthy diet and a sedentary lifestyle. In the past, heart disease mainly affected those in affluent Western countries. But today in South Asia, particularly in India, the rat race to attain and keep a place in the élite class has produced some bad results. The West has exported its diseases as well its technology. Our traditional diet and lifestyle used to keep us healthy, but junk food and irregular hours have made us prone to heart disease...
...microdermabrasion. Savvy strutters whose feet are sore from their Manolos are hobbling to doctors to get the balls of their feet injected with collagen, Restylane and Botox. The extra cushioning allows for hours of pain-free high-heel wearing. Salons too are stepping up to the plate, with fake nails for tootsies. Dashing Diva, a Manhattan-based nail boutique and spa, offers Tip-Toes, ready-to-wear nail falsies (kits are $10). You can order Levine's foot-facial kit ($50) at www.footfacial.com or, for less cash, try Burt's Bees ($10), a foot-care kit that contains Coconut Foot...