Word: odd
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...medical examiner. More research has gone into the proper way to brush your teeth. But the idea caught on, and now, years later, more than half the states have adopted some version of the Oklahoma cocktail. Judges in courts across the country are scratching their head over the odd concoction, and the Supreme Court has effectively halted all executions to untangle a mess of belated questions: How much risk of torture is too much? How many safeguards are necessary? What makes a punishment cruel and unusual...
...Canada's economy barely wavered. Along with the loonie, output, employment and Canadians' deservedly inflated pride all flew steadily in the face of a global credit crisis. In fact, the most remarkable thing about the loonie's ascent may be how handily Canadians handled it - notwithstanding the odd hurled book. Just imagine if in 2002 someone had prophesied today's exchange rates. "I think we [all] would have concluded that the Canadian economy would be decimated," says Don Drummond at TD. "We have thrived through this." It's a good thing, too. The loonie may be flying high...
...will be able to go to good schools, there's affordable health care and good paying jobs. If they temporarily located to another community that has those things, you can't reasonably ask them to give up those things and come back. In a way - and this is an odd silver lining out of a destructive storm that nobody asked for - it allows us to leapfrog and make bigger changes than can be done elsewhere. We're now getting to rebuild - in some cases from scratch - our schools, our health care infrastructure, our transportation infrastructure. We now have the opportunity...
...city of Cambridge itself has continued its custom of festooning Harvard Square with strings of lights. Overhanging Massachusetts Avenue at various locations, peculiar whirlpool-shaped designs shed blurs of light on the automobiles and pedestrians passing below. These odd illuminations alert visitors and residents alike of some impending festive occasion, but remain ambiguous as to what that occasion might be. Lights during December traditionally signal Christmas, even when arranged in no particular pattern, but the Cambridge decorations seem to imply some other holiday by their strangeness: something new, something different, something starkly conscious of a Christian heritage they carefully avoid...
...It’s an odd sport to watch in the northeast,” said the Pennsylvania native...