Word: padded
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...Secretary of State received news of the attack on his way to a helicopter pad outside Jerusalem, where he and Israeli defense officials boarded a Blackhawk to fly to Israel's northern command headquarters. Powell's hosts flew him over the site of the bombing, circling it repeatedly; he could see people running through the streets and ambulances taking the wounded from the scene. Once the Blackhawk touched down, eight miles from the Lebanese border, Powell took a call from Sharon and expressed his deep regrets over the attack. That day, after consulting with National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, Powell...
...Agassiz Professor of Zoology, commented in an email, “[Gould] is probably the best known evolutionary biologist of his generation. His popularity is due to his ability to choose what seem like small features of the biological world…and use these examples as a launching pad to explain in a creative and clever way key features of evolutionary biology.” According to Wrangham, “no one is better at weaving history, science and the arts into a compelling narrative...
...safety features along the way. The entrepreneurial spirit in this capital of Guangdong province is celebrated during the Chinese Export Commodities Fair, held every April and October since 1956. Some 100,000 businesspeople from around the world descend upon Guangzhou to check out goods, broker deals and pad bloated expense accounts; not a difficult task in a city built on consumption?gastronomic, alcoholic and conspicuous. My assignment is to experience all three...
...cells. Three Jordanians and one Palestinian who all had lived in the country for a decade were arrested late last year, suspected of planning attacks. Jemaah Islamia has been plotting strikes all over the region--members were caught in Singapore last year. "I think the Americans need a launching pad and a listening post in Asia," says a foreign diplomat in Manila. "What better place than the Philippines...
Psychologists and psychiatrists may seem like two sides of the same medical coin, but there has always been one thing that separates them: the power of the prescription pad. Last week New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson leveled the field, signing a bill that makes his state the first to offer Ph.D. psychologists the same prescribing rights as M.D. psychiatrists. The move has sparked renewed debate about just who is qualified to prescribe to whom. Says Dr. Neil Arnet, an Albuquerque psychiatrist: "They got through legislation what they needed to have gotten through training and education...