Word: piped
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...government didn't realize how harmful it will be," said 21-year-old Shaz Ahmed, a recent university graduate and avid smoker of the liquid cooled shisha pipe, or hookah . "Businesses that rely on shisha will lose a lot of money - so they will go underground. What else can they do?" Unlike regular pubs whose main revenue stream is the sale of alcohol, the shisha bars don't serve alcohol in deference to its prohibition in Islam...
...there was a suspicion that Lebanese Hizballah, on Iranian orders, was trying to establish cells in the U.S., particularly in the Detroit area. But no cell was found. Some terrorist analysts still believe that Iran tried to kill William Rogers, the commander of the U.S.S. Vincennes, when a pipe bomb went off under his minivan in 1989. The Vincennes shot down an Iranian civilian airliner over the Gulf in 1988, and the attack on Rogers was presumably in retaliation. The FBI officially dismisses the Iranian hypotheses. A Hizballah-associated group in North Carolina cheating on cigarette taxes was tried...
...freak thing,” former Crimson President William E. McKibben ’82 says of the midsummer flood. A pipe had burst, and by the morning the water was gone...
...Corduff is just back from The Hague, where he'd gone to the centennial AGM of the Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell to berate the company over its plans to run a six-mile high-pressure gas pipeline through his neighborhood. The pipe would connect the massive Corrib gas field, 50 miles out to sea, to a 400-acre refinery being built in nearby Ballinaboy. When Shell's surveyors first showed up on his land in 2000, Corduff showed them the gate. By the time they returned in June 2005, armed with a compulsory purchase order, a court injunction...
...park ranger at neighboring Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument was killed by drug smugglers. Vehicle barriers, which allow animals to pass back and forth, are now in place along parts of the Arizona border. More are planned and will soon be protecting Cabeza Prieta. But drug smugglers have adapted and DiRosa said there has been an increase in backpacking gangs. On the Mexican side, conservationists face the same challenges - one large Mexican refuge has several clandestine airstrips operated by the cartels, which operate with impunity...