Word: odd
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...March and was officially declared on Nov. 26, already appears to be lifting. Last week came reports that housing starts and permits rose sharply in November. Home-builder stocks, classic early movers, have been on a tear. With the end in sight, here are some lasting lessons from an odd economic downturn...
...have HIV/AIDS, his brand of candor remains rare. But thanks in part to the dying boy's speech, more people have begun to speak about AIDS rather than hide from it. This year the cacophony of South Africans questioning their government's AIDS policies - and President Thabo Mbeki's odd reluctance to accept the link between HIV and AIDS - grew louder. Across the continent groups began demanding cheaper or free antiretroviral drugs. "Nkosi made a lot of adults think, ?Well, if this little kid is open about his status, then surely we can take those bold steps,'" says Nkosi...
...voice Bourdain uses in conversation and in writing--an odd mixture of macho vulgarity and effete vocabulary, a DMX-Jane Austin duet in one person--has made him both a success and a target for most serious food writers. It's a learned toughness: he's by nature a softie, a prep-school kid who went to Vassar to follow a girl he had crush on (whom he later married). But after two years he dropped out of college to work in a series of kitchens--including fish shacks where he chopped onions alongside ex-con fry cooks--before earning...
...Hard alcohol - just like beer and wine - is best consumed in a responsible manner by responsible people. If people, including kids, drink too much, it's not going to be because they saw the odd scotch spot on prime time. It will be for exactly the same reason people drink too much beer and wine: Because alcohol makes people feel better, or lets them relax, or dulls their pain, at least in the short term. Yes, it's dangerous, and yes, abusing it can lead to alcoholism. But, lest we forget, this is a free country, and the law permits...
...Sulawesi a few days after the group's attacks, the road is still heavy with the stink of charred wooden buildings and trees, and is lined on both sides with smashed houses and the odd gutted church. Apart from a few desultory looters?just about everything that could be moved has already been carted away?the only human presence amid the utter destruction is a handful of local Muslim men checking traffic for any Christian foolish enough to return...