Word: pit
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...forearm that reads "Jesus." "There are no other women to train with here, so I use men and it's pretty intense and rigorous," says Porto, who despite her fierce reputation in the ring is well-spoken and has a gentle manner, especially with her dog, an uncharacteristically calm pit bull named Hannah. Training takes place in the small community center in Jua, her gritty small hometown of 150,000 in the interior of Sao Paulo state. It is an all-day affair, with a few breaks for meals and rest...
...other monument. Facing certain defeat on three separate occasions, Chittorgarh's fierce Rajput occupants donned saffron robes and rode out from its iron-spiked gates to their deaths. Not to be outdone by the sacrificial heroics of their menfolk, the women chose jauhar, or self-immolation in a fiery pit, over captivity. Such tales have cloaked Chittorgarh in an aura that it retains to this day. My guide waxes romantic over the spot where the beautiful Queen Padmini committed herself to the flames to escape the Sultan of Delhi's clutches in 1303. "She is still beloved by the people...
...reforms needed by developing countries remains, as far as I can tell, quite conventional, circa 1980, with a splash of ‘augmented’ Washington Consensus thinking added in,” he wrote. “One needs to go beyond these old-fashioned ideas that pit states against markets if one wants to make progress against global poverty.” Rodrik did not respond to phone and e-mail requests for comment yesterday. Wolfowitz resigned his post effective June 30th. He was forced to step down from his position when an internal panel determined that...
AFTER BEING RESCUED IN 1993 from a 13-day ordeal during which he was held by kidnappers in a pit under a New York City highway, clothing executive Harvey Weinstein awed his family and colleagues by simply going on with his life. But the story of the Marine vet's survival in the face of the nightmare--he recited his life story to stay sane--won him national acclaim. One of the worst moments, according to Weinstein? Finding out that one of his captors was an employee...
...each year from cardiovascular disease have previously survived a heart attack or stroke. As a way to boost compliance, condensing treatment into a single pill, says Patel, "is probably going to be one of the biggest steps forward we can make at this stage." The trials will pit a polypill-based strategy against standard care. The aim: to find out whether the tinkering with dosages that's been a pillar of cardiovascular treatment-5 mg more of this, 5 mg less of that-really makes much difference. The answer is probably no, says Patel, even though "we might feel threatened...