Word: peppers
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...Highlands have abundant coffee fields, pepper farms and rubber trees, but much of that recent prosperity has bypassed the Montagnards?French for "mountain dwellers"?who live in grievous poverty in tin-walled homes or rickety wooden stilt houses. They say their land has been encroached upon by Vietnamese migrants from the lowlands and that they have been subjected to religious persecution because many follow a form of Protestantism that isn't officially sanctioned...
...rumored to be made of fish. (Just don't ask what part-explanations from Koreans range from "the fishy part" to a blunt "I don't know.") Another favorite, and one of less obscure provenance, is duk bok gi-rice noodles as thick as cigars, smothered in red pepper paste...
Police ordered the protesters to disperse, but minutes later, arrested about 50 people, including four Harvard students, and moved them into police wagons with the use of pepper spray...
After the suspect, William Cicero, 62, failed to heed an order to drop his weapons, one officer doused him with pepper spray. Cicero responded by throwing his meat cleaver and club at police. According to HUPD spokesperson Steven G. Catalano, officers were at this point authorized to use lethal force...
...Cicero was subdued with a combination of pepper spray and police batons, as a crowd of passersby looked on. Still, the Sept. 19, 2003 arrest marks one of the most dangerous and violent police actions undertaken by HUPD in the last four years...