Word: offshoot
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...plastic explosives and other munitions acquired from the Iraqi military after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Despite Turkish authorities' claims, the p.k.k. denies involvement in the bombings at the seaside towns of Antalya and Marmaris. Another Kurdish group, the Kurdistan Freedom Hawks (t.a.k.), has claimed responsibility. Considered a p.k.k. offshoot, the t.a.k. boasted in a written statement that "we have promised to turn monstrous Turkey into hell," with "more actions, bigger blows." Aydar told Time last week that the p.k.k. and t.a.k. differ in their underlying philosophies and do not collaborate on operations: "We are not responsible for what they...
DIED. Robert Hoffman, 59, sharp-witted former Coca-Cola executive and philanthropist who in 1969, along with two fellow Harvard students, co-founded the pioneering satirical magazine National Lampoon; of leukemia; in Dallas. The magazine, an offshoot of the Harvard Lampoon, took wry, sometimes outrageous jabs at the rich and famous. In a photo essay it once posited that Richard Nixon, then serving his first term in office, was in fact dead...
...tend to be brandy and beer, respectively). Singapore, where average per capita alcohol consumption barely notches three liters a year, is not that much different - and yet it recently became home to a branch of La Maison du Whisky, an award-winning whisky stockist headquartered in Paris. The new offshoot, tel: (65) 6733 0059, hopes to educate the Southeast Asian market - as well as provide succor to thirsty visitors and the area's sprinkling of whisky fans - with its splendid selection of 700 premium blends and malts, housed in the new Pier complex at Robertson Quay. Selections range from simple...
...When did you start Pink Is The New Blog and why? I started Pink Is the New Blog in June 2004, but it was actually an offshoot of my original blog that I started in August of 2002. The whole reason I started blogging in the first place was because I wanted to get into the habit of writing every single day, and I thought that if I did it online, and if there was an audience - even if the audience as small as my parents and my friends who I made read my blog - that I would have this...
...China: a junior school in Suzhou in 2007 and an upper-school joint venture with a leading Chinese high school in Beijing in 2008. Dulwich has plans for India, too. The trend has caught on: Shrewsbury School has a three-year-old affiliate in Bangkok, and a Dubai offshoot of Repton will open for business in 2007. Given British schools' success overseas, can a private education by any other name smell as sweet? In Gamagori, Japan, Kaiyo Academy, backed by a group of high-ranking businessmen hoping to revamp Japanese academic standards, has tried to shake off the name minted...