Word: overnighting
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...Koizumi is still basking in his party's landslide election victory last September, and he is one of Bush's few solid-gold allies. So the overnight stay in the former imperial capital of Kyoto-one of the few cities left where geishas, ancient temples and rickshaws abound-was a way for Bush to draft off of Koizumi's triumph. It was also an opportunity to touch down on friendly turf before plunging into the chaos of an international economic summit in Busan, South Korea, a honeymooners' paradise now on lockdown by police massing on every downtown corner with riot...
...mail." When Abu Ghraib's military-intelligence commander showed up, a witness heard him say, "I'm not going down for this alone." To avoid roiling the other prisoners and prevent decomposition of the body, al-Jamadi's corpse was iced down and held in the interrogation room overnight. The next day, wrapped in a body bag, covered with a blanket and with an intravenous tube taped to his arm, al-Jamadi was spirited out of Abu Ghraib as if he were merely an invalid. The location of his remains has not been made public...
...also was reluctant, especially early in her career, to let colleagues know that she gave birth to her son when she was 17 and unwed. "People are fascinated by this," she says, of her teen pregnancy. "The whole conversation changes overnight. I didn't want it to get in the way of my career. I didn't need that and my son didn't." Later, she became more comfortable sharing this personal detail at work. "It's an important part of who I am and the story I have to tell," she says. "I never saw it as a liability...
...Kabul's airport, nicknamed the Salt Pit by the CIA and the Darkness Prison by inmates. Detainees who have escaped or been released from the prison claim they were kept in cold, dark cells underground, fed once every three days and sometimes chained wet and naked to the wall overnight...
...Perhaps the most interesting part of Bush's talk was his discussion of the challenge of getting enough vaccine in a hurry when it's needed, and he began the difficult task of setting citizens' expectations so they don't expect overnight miracles. "One of the challenges presented by a pandemic is that scientists need a sample of the new strain before they can produce a vaccine against it," he said. "This means it is difficult to produce a pandemic vaccine before the pandemic actually appears-and so there may not be a vaccine capable of fully immunizing our citizens...