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...Beijing and elsewhere. Several Chinese officials have told me that a consideration in covering up?or, as one put it, "not mentioning"?the disease was the timing of the plenum of the National People's Congress, which convened in March. The country's top law-making body was then rubber-stamping the selection of a new President, and an unseemly new infectious disease could have been seen as besmirching heaven's mandate. This was a political decision that cost human lives...
...feet away from the entrance. It's hard to imagine the confines could provide its inhabitant with a feeling of security, much less power, or anything other than a sense of claustrophobia, especially when the Styrofoam block is lowered into the entrance way, then covered with a rubber mat, a cloth rug, and dirt-as it was when Special Operations Forces soldiers discovered it shortly after 8 p.m. on December...
...property where he was found, perhaps five strides inside the front gate, a soldier kicked away some dirt from a spot that looked odd-a spot on top of which a soldier had stood during the first pass. Underneath the dirt was a cloth rug. Underneath that was a rubber mat, which sat atop a thick Styrofoam block. "We expected something more elaborate. We expected something more well constructed," said Lt. Col. Hickey. They also expected resistance, he says, but when the block was removed, "two hands appeared. That individual clearly wanted to surrender." The bearded, bewildered looking...
...didn’t get a lot of rubber on her,” McCloskey said. “There was lots of traffic in front of her and some bounces in front as the game went on. I thought we were getting some better chances, but she never looked to me like she was out of position...
...when did all your friends become so bendy? Still, if you can't talk them back onto the tennis courts and the ski slopes (what do they mean, "high-impact?"), then at least you can get them to stop embarrassing you by showing up everywhere with those icky purple rubber mats. Louis Vuitton's specially-treated Epi Soft leather yoga mat and bag, about...