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...Letters that mean “I needed this yesterday!” 2. Corn ___ 3. Was on Easy Street 4. Wall covering at Harvard? 5. Drops on the ground? 6. 90s politico H. Ross ___ 7. Prefix meaning “culture” 8. “___ Te Ching” 9. Architectural addition 10. Class clowns 11. “Bye Bye Bye” boy band 12. Yogi who stars in an Aflac ad 13. Sing softly 18. First man 22. Caribou relative 24. Crew team equipment 25. Letter distribution on base 26. Jazz instruments 27. Something...
...million in the field this year; the E.U. is playing catch-up with a four-year, €1 billion pitch - hampered, says Ottilia Saxl of Britain's Institute of Nanotechnology, by the fact that European research relies predominantly on vulnerable small businesses. "Nano" is fast becoming a must-have prefix in advertisements for everything from cosmetics to trousers to tennis racquets. But as the technology enters the mass market, fear and suspicion of the science could grow - unless scientists and politicians debate the present implications of the technology rather than its far distant future. Without such honest, open discussion, public...
...diplomatic standoff on Iraq continued, France became the new foe in this conflict. Whether it was Congress or President George W. Bush himself, name-calling, mockery and general disrespect flew from Washington. Every media outlet picked up the news that the House of Representatives had decided to change the prefix ‘French’ to ‘Freedom’ in both its fries and its toast. Despite the amusing nature of the replacement (mocking the French always elicits a giggle), this change symbolized a more worrisome trend. More recently, Republican Jim Saxton of New Jersey proposed...
...adult literature scene. SCREW, a once nationally published magazine which will celebrate its 35th anniversary this year, prides itself on its political satire and raunchy photos. SCREW has published interviews with John Lennon and Yoko Ono, Jack Nicholson and other stars (though most are preceded by the prefix porn). However, SCREW’s true claim to fame is its willingness to push the limits of printed pornography. Its best-selling issue was in 1973 when it printed nude photos of former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and sold 530,000 copies for 75 cents an issue...
...around them. They realized that unlike many of their homelands, one could express political or cultural opposition here and still be regarded as a good American. And finally, they gave birth to a generation, now in its 20s and 30s, whose primary identification is American, albeit with a "Muslim" prefix. "The feeling is," paraphrases Haddad (who is not Muslim), "'We are American. We participate in this America. We cannot live off America and not be part of it, and we have something to contribute...