Word: pieds
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...mini-republics that the U.S.S.R. released like so many Tootsie Rolls from a piñata in the 1990s have not exactly turbocharged the Central Asian economy. And while Pakistan may have seemed like a nifty idea around the time they cut the ribbon, it's been plagued by troubles pretty much ever since - including the, uh, secession of Bangladesh...
...Faizullah Mohammed, was sitting under an almond tree at Tora Chena, about 8 km from Tarin Kowt, when "somehow the Australians managed to target his seat under the tree and dropped a bomb on it," says elder Obeidullah. "They killed 33 Taliban that day." After tracking Taliban leader Mullah Pi Mohammed into the mountains near Deh Roshan, Australian troops killed him and most of his fighters. Local police say the Australians also killed another senior Taliban member, Mullah Sadullah, near Tarin Kowt...
...Life: 0 PowerPoint Presentations: N/A (Professor Marshall has gone back to prehistoric times himself and relies solely on the use of overheads) CHEMISTRY 30: ORGANIC CHEMISTRY Course Description: Topics include: Carbonyls, pericyclic reactions, stereochemistry, stereoelectric theory, molecular orbital theory, organometallic chemistry, rotovapping, Sn2 reactions, enolation, bromination, Grignard reactions, and pi orbital conjugation, to name a few. WTF?! Students are expected to come out of this course with total comprehension of all theories of organic chemistry. In reality, most obtain just enough knowledge to scrape by on the MCAT. Overall: .001 Suicide Risk: 5 Primary Reason for Enrolling: Pre-med Primary...
...perfectly prepared to believe that today's young people are deplorable specimens, ignorant and ungrateful and in desperate need of discipline. Or I am also prepared to believe that they are about to burst with idealism like a piñata and only await somebody with a giant pin. But they aren't the only ones who could use a lesson about social obligation. What about grownups? Grownups, who still have some hope of collecting Social Security and Medicare before they go broke, who have enjoyed the explosion in house prices that make the prospect of home ownership...
Perhaps Prime Minister of Canada Stephen Harper was warned to beware of authors bearing gifts. Recently, Canadian writer Yann Martel, who became a household name when his novel Life of Pi won the prestigious Booker Prize in 2002, announced that he intended to send the Prime Minister a book every two weeks. Martel has already sent Harper two, accompanied by letters about each book's literary merits and meanings, but the PM has yet to thank...