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...undertaken a massive and fairly successful campaign to beef up airline security, measures to secure local mass transportation systems have lagged far behind, whether as a result of wrangling over the disbursement of lucrative homeland security grants at the state level, lack of initiative at the local level, or plain old bureaucratic foot-dragging at every level...
...verdict? "Two vowels betray your background." My clenched and elongated [an error occurred while processing this directive]"oh" and "oo" sounds, he says, are the tip-off that I'm a toff. So why don't I want to sound privileged? For starters, I'm not. I'm just plain middle class, but I talk as if my family live in a stately home and don't have to work. My ancestors were mainly teachers, vicars, profs and bishops - careers which might require a top-of-the-range voice. That may explain why I speak a distinctly upmarket version...
...kept my professional interest level amazingly high for the 22 years that I've been doing orthopedics. So when, in the middle of doing an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair this morning, my trusty assistant Dave told me about Don Rumsfeld's repair, I knew I had to get the plain truth out to our readership - as soon as possible...
...Will Boratmania conquer North America as it has Toronto? I hope so, since it's the most inventive, assaultive - and just plain funny comedy since South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut. One clue to the movie's early power is the unease it has sparked among the presumed objects of its ridicule. The real Kazakhstan, perhaps taking a hint from Kurdistan's recent ad campaign promoting itself as "the other Iraq," is busily devising a publicity effort to counter Borat's supposed national slander...
...meal but are instead stuck with slimy supermarket packets in an apartment kitchen, the new AEROGROW AEROGARDEN is here to help. This "aeroponic" system--a sort of electronic hydroponic garden, in which the roots of plants grow in water without soil--makes even the darkest kitchen counter a fertile plain. Using the AeroGarden is foolproof: plug it in, fill the basin with water, pop in the seedpods and watch things grow. The unit has a lighting system that cycles on and off to give your plants the perfect amount of light on which to thrive. The downside is that...