Word: roading
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...house police found four children all huddled together. They knew they were children by the size of their skulls. Near a road, firefighters found the body of a man who appeared to have crashed his motorcycle and then died as he tried to outrun the flames. One man put his children in the car and dashed back to his house to collect something; when he returned the car was on fire and his children dead...
...other early risers. And unbeknownst to us, we were also going to have to tolerate appalling police incompetence. And so late at night on January 19, I put on three pairs of pants, grabbed our precious, fancy-looking tickets and some American flags, and we hit the road. When multiple detours finally brought us to our section’s entrance at 3:30 a.m., we found a very civil, self-policed line of 60 or so friendly people bundled in coats and sleeping bags. By 4:30 a.m; the situation had devolved into mayhem. A few impromptu community organizers...
...Civil rights groups say any kind of castration, even if reversible, could take society down the road to eugenics. A 1985 U.S. Supreme Court ruling said that involuntary surgical castration constituted cruel and unusual punishment. David Fathi, head of Human Rights Watch's U.S. program in Washington, says the Czech methods not only defy medical convention but also are an affront to civil liberties. "Any irreversible punishment is a fundamental violation of human rights. And any kind of mutilation is barbaric," he says...
...Tricky's road to Paris started a year ago with a return home, to the hardscrabble Knowle West district of Bristol, England. That trip led to the release of his latest album, Knowle West Boy, a fusion of Britpop and hip-hop that Rolling Stone calls "Tricky's best since his 1995 debut Maxinquaye". For the 41-year-old artist, that journey home was a chance to take stock. "You can't just keep moving forward, you have to look backwards sometimes," Tricky tells TIME. Revisiting his own difficult childhood, Tricky found himself wanting to "talk for kids growing...
...Zimbabwe" and offered "my hand of friendship and cooperation, warm cooperation and solidarity" to Tsvangirai. "If yesterday we were adversaries," he said at Tsvangirai's swearing-in, "today we stand in unity." Mugabe too acknowledged the "deep-seated mistrust" between the two sides. "We are all aware that the road has been long, tedious and often frustrating." But he added that the pair had "shown that we have the capacity to resolve our differences. We must build on this unity by turning our swords into plowshares...