Word: primed
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...young hotties bringing the popular book series' characters to life) has proved powerful enough to keep the girls coming. Of the estimated 3,000 exceedingly vocal fans at the Monday-night premiere, some had been camping in the square for five days to ensure that they would have a prime square foot of concrete once the stars began to arrive. Stephanie Clark, 29, was part of a group of fans taking up the best real estate, earned through nights of sleeping bags, tents and improvised bathroom facilities. "You quickly find out that the In-and-Out burger bathroom is open...
...TOKYO) - Japan's foreign minister said Monday that Tokyo should honor its agreement to find a new location for a major U.S. Marine base, but he and the prime minister said they were still seeking options on where it should...
Japan and the U.S. agreed in 2006 to relocate Marine Corps Air Station Futenma to a site farther north on Okinawa in the city of Nago, but Prime Minister Yukio Hatoyama has put the deal on hold and indicated the relocation site could be changed...
...landmark apology on Nov. 16, Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd said sorry to the thousands of British child migrants for the nation's participation in a program that resulted in psychological and physical trauma to so many. He also included in the apology another group of 500,000 who are referred to as "forgotten Australians" - Australian children who were institutionalized in the 20th century because they were either orphans, children of single mothers, or belonged to abusive parents. Like the migrant children, many were also subjected to physical, sexual and emotional abuse under state care. (See the 25 crimes...
...Opposition leader Malcolm Turnbull also joined Rudd in the ceremony. "Today we acknowledge that, already feeling alone, abandoned and left without love, many of you were beaten and abused, physically, sexually, mentally - treated like objects not people - leaving you to feel of even less worth," said Turnbull. Prime Minister Gordon Brown is due to make his own apology to the 130,000 British children sent from Britain to Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Zimbabwe and Australia sometime next year...