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...word so powerful that it evokes a frenzy when it's used? What we view as offensive has changed over time and continues to change. Right now we're at a point where sexual scatological terms are considered not really that bad. They still have power but not as much as they used to even, let's say, 50 years ago. The difference is immense. In the past couple of decades, we've seen a real explosion in how widely [the F word is] being used, because people are more comfortable with it and less puritanical about...
...remove the head of the BBC because of it, to prosecute him for using obscene words. In America, it's been used a number of times. Last week or the week before, Saturday Night Live used it in a sketch that was actually about the use of freaking. The point of the sketch was using this euphemism, and someone actually slipped up and used the word itself. (See the top 10 newscaster bloopers...
...financial trouble he's in. Does anyone bring up those finances when it comes to the bill for Eden? No, because they need Shane and Trudy for comic relief and to make the movie seem less like a portrait of whining white upper-middle-class people. Only to a point, though - looking at a poster for the movie, you have to squint to find Love and Hawk. They're way in the back...
...premier wine hub. Hong Kong collectors already own 17% of the world's stock of fine wines. But most of that stash - the largest in the world on a per capita basis - has been stored abroad because the city charged an onerous duty on imported wines that at one point reached as high as 80%. Then, two years ago, the market really began to flourish when the government scrapped all wine and spirits duties. To encourage the creation of a local wine industry, authorities also abolished most of the paperwork surrounding wine imports, and importers were allowed to have customs...
Panetta won't say what kind of covert operations were carried out or how the agency was able to conclude that the Qum facility was nuclear. The counterterrorism officials says only that "our body of knowledge, based on multiple sources, grew to the point that allowed us earlier this year to reach the high-confidence conclusion that this was a covert nuclear facility...