Word: nasalities
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...Florida, the FBI continued its investigation into a deadly case of anthrax. A tabloid newspaper editor died last week after exposure to the disease, and anthrax spores were detected in a co-workers nasal passages. Hundreds of people who worked in the same buiding as the deceased editor are being tested; authorities "doubt" this is a naturally occurring case of the disease, but as yet have no evidence suggesting a terrorist link...
...without government interference, without a single baht unfairly withheld, without unnecessary delay. He says in his Northern Thai accent that he is one of them, that he knows they can't wait for the money, that they need the Internet, that they need e-commerce. His voice is a nasal tenor, the run of his rambling vowels is corralled by strong, pronounced consonants. "Do you know what I see?" he asks the bewildered villagers who have been sitting in the hot sun for two hours waiting for a glimpse of their new PM. "I see you selling your mulberry paper...
...Ertegun and house arranger Jesse Stone had to prod the new guy to drop the crooning (on some early recordings, like "It Should?ve Been Me" and "Greenbacks," he adopts the nasal whisper of a race tout) and get forceful. Charles also learned that he was his best composer. His first pieces were every bit as primitive as Ertegun?s, but his renditions were way more primal. On "Don?t You Know" the lyric boasts a banality worthy of Ahmet?s efforts ("Don?t you know, baby/ Child, don?t you know, baby/ Don?t you know, baby/ Little girl...
...hike up a steep ascent into the quiet shadows of a stand of pines. The name of the path?Leading the Ox Up By Its Nose?exactly describes the gradient. A statue of Kannon with a horse's head commemorates the pack animals whom no amount of nasal persuasion could keep from collapse. That night we stay in Hosokute at a wooden inn, last rebuilt in 1880. Swallows nest inside the doorway, as they have for generations. The floor flexes under our feet as we step gingerly across knotholes and gaps in the boards. But the plumbing is modern: warmed...
...experts seek a balance between health and the bottom line. Take the issue of humidity. Some passengers find cabin air to be uncomfortably dry?as low as 5% humidity is common, compared with 30% in the earth's temperate zones. Some doctors advise using saline sprays to prevent nasal passages from drying out, which makes them more susceptible to colds and other germs, and wearing glasses rather than contact lenses to ward off dry and itchy eyes. But don't expect the carriers to instigate change. "If airlines increased cabin humidity beyond the customary level, condensation inside the aircraft...