Word: queue
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...spot along the queue outside the hospital lay a pile of rocks dubbed "fertility stones." The thought was that their proximity to such a miracle of reproductive biology - five girls! - might help mothers who were finding it difficult to conceive. Modern society has no need for good-luck charms, however. All one needs is nine months, several thousand dollars and a good...
...miles outside the town of Jaén, olive trees cover the hills in neat lines. But this year's harvest, which started on Dec. 1, has brought another, more troubling, queue to town: the bread line. Each night, immigrants in search of once plentiful seasonal work find themselves forced to gather outside the city shelter to wait for a hot meal and, if they're lucky, a bed. "I've been working the olive harvest for the past six years," says Abdullah N., a Moroccan migrant who preferred not to give his last name. "But this year...
...world." In other words, it's not just about food parcels or blankets. It's about an idea of what the world's most populous nation can be. And that gets CEOs sheepishly arising from their cognac and shark-fin banquets to write checks. It makes the poor queue at post offices to offer gifts of a few grubby notes. It even persuades Italian fashion icons to sully their extravagant shoes in the mud of ravaged rural Sichuan...
...debate about the U.S. elections sporting a sequined jacket decorated with stars-and-stripes and G.O.P. elephants. Talk at the many social events around the conference was dominated by the contest. "I rather like Sarah Palin," confessed one immaculately coiffed Conservative dame, as she waited in the powder room queue. "How can you say that?" interjected her neighbor. "That Palin woman is simply terrifying...
...last September, the revival is being produced by the city's Public Theater, Joseph Papp's downtown theater lab that first opened its doors in 1967 with Hair. It is returning on the 40th anniversary of the show's Broadway debut. All the tickets, fittingly, are free. Most folks queue up on the Internet now (for seats chosen by lottery) rather than stand in line all day long, but it's the hottest ticket in New York City...