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...dramatic but might cause more disruption in the long run. Such attempts are not unheard of. In World War II, Britain accused Germany of dropping small cardboard bombs filled with beetle pests on English potato fields, and in the 1980s Tamil militants threatened to target Sri Lankan tea and rubber plantations with plant pathogens...
...still shivers at the memory of a 1994 episode when she and her teammates had to pick up live snakes and bite their bodies (gently). Kim was so frightened that her trainer had to hold the snake while she did the biting. A colleague, initially thinking the snake was rubber, slung it around her neck. She was about to kiss it when it flicked out its tongue. Says Kim: "She completely freaked out." So have some of Korea's sports doctors, who are appalled at the drills, which they say add to the stress top athletes endure. Says Han Myung...
...burnt shoulder might kill him confirmed that I loved him—the fear of losing him terrified me. Although we couldn’t play games or carry on conversations, we could make each other laugh. All I had to do was roll a blue rubber ball towards his contorted feet. All he had to do was poke me with his misshapen fingers...
...most extensive investigation in FBI history—some for minor traffic violations. Yet even some of the most trenchant of Bush’s opponents announced that they “stand behind the president.” In the week following the attacks, Congress seemed ready to rubber stamp anything the president asked them to, no matter how costly or ridiculous. To do otherwise might have looked unpatriotic or even pro-terrorist. But is it truly patriotic to simply lust for Afghan blood and attach an American flag to your...
...moniker Preston School of Industry. Preston’s debut album, All This Sounds Gas, is an album of shameless, shambolic and possibly pointless waster-rock, it is also a wonderfully pretentionless record of a band diving head-first into their record collection like one of those big foam-rubber pits and throwing stuff around to their hearts’ content. It is hard to imagine that the School take their music half as seriously as many of their Pavement-mourning listeners will. Others, however, can simply enjoy the infectious irreverence...