Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Senator Edward Kennedy took the opportunity to highlight the achievement from his state, and criticize the President's position. "I commend Advanced Cell Technology for its remarkable breakthrough, "he said in a statement. "It's tragic that the current Republican Congress continues to rubber stamp the restrictions that deny federal funding for scientists engaged in medical research that could save or improve countless lives...
...that their handheld metal detectors are being set off by Michael Ian Black's soda bottle - so they can confiscate it and drink it themselves. "You're just going 'wah, wah' when you put the thing over the soda!" Black protests, as the guard played by Gaffigan adjusts his rubber gloves and threatens, "Just give me the word, Wendy." Now, of course, you try to sneak a bottle of pop past the TSA and they'll stun-gun the crap...
...family's attic while PLO terrorists searched for them in their apartment in the coastal Israeli town of Nahariya. The terrorists didn't find them but took Smadar's husband and their four-year-old daughter hostage. When the cell, retreating as security forces pursued them, found the rubber boat they'd arrived in disabled by gunfire, one of the members shot Smadar's husband Danny in the back and drowned him in the sea to ensure he was dead. Next, he smashed little Einat's head on beach rocks and crushed her skull with the butt of his rifle...
...Guest rooms are tastefully opulent: plush pink, red and orange fabrics, modern dark-oak furniture, Egyptian cotton sheets and bespoke artwork. But the details feel like home: a chess set on the table, candles by the bathtub, books you might actually read and a welcome bag with a little rubber duck inside. If you can pull yourself away from the Bang & Olufsen entertainment center, the hotel's swanky Cerise restaurant serves a modern European menu using local ingredients, and the bartender makes a mean mojito. It's been said one should never mix business with pleasure. Whoever said that...
...benefits were always at best a bit murky. The oft-cited research, the so-called Firestone Study, was actually a 1972 speech given to lunching Firestone Tire and Rubber executives by an advocate for helping employees overcome "medical-behavioral problems" like alcoholism. The advocate, whose name has long been forgotten, mentioned drugs only in passing and never identified the source for the statistics or anything else that might make the numbers credible. Truth be told, employment experts say there has been virtually no research indicating that drug tests improve safety or productivity...