Word: sand
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...time. It was determined that lingering customer was feeling ill. Oct. 31: 12:48 p.m.—Reports of a suspicious package placed near Annenberg Hall sent officers to the freshmen dining hall to investigate. Police discovered the package posed no threat and actually was filled just with sand. 5:35 p.m.—An officer was sent to Canaday Hall in response to a report concerning $500 in cash that had been stolen from an unsecured room. Nov. 1: 1:18 p.m.—Officers were dispatched to the Spangler Building at 1 Soldiers Field Park...
...that David Letterman started as a weatherman in Indiana. "Both jobs," he says, "are about making palatable the fact that the next five days are going to be miserable." Luckily, the comedian already has plenty of weather jokes in his act: "In Arizona they have monsoons, a wall of sand followed by water. That's not weather, that's pottery...
...however, this important difference between this film and its predecessors: these guys never get to fire a shot. They are all dressed up in stifling combat gear but they have no place to go, except over the next berm (or dune) where they find nothing but more emptiness, more sand, which, if you want to get all fancy and symbolic about it, matches the emptiness inside them...
Weil's statement that "there are at present no effective antiaging medicines" shows that he has his head in the sand. Western medicine (through technology) has found a way to extend our lives well beyond what was once considered a normal life-span, but it has not addressed the quality-of-life issue. Bioidentical hormone-replacement therapies, which use hormones manufactured to have the same molecular structure as those made by our bodies, enable us to maintain quality of life by replacing the hormones we lose as we age. The goal is to keep our insides young. A youthful interior...
...others carried out as many missions as they could between daybreak to sundown. They were grounded temporarily on Tuesday afternoon when thunder and hail lashed the region. Otherwise, they have constantly ferried foreign rescue workers up into the mountains to dig for survivors in villages that melted away like sand castles when the earthquake hit. McFadden and his colleagues dumped out tents, medical supplies and food to desperate mobs of survivors who lunged into the chopper, fighting each other for the relief bundles. Some Pakistani officials say that several times, desperate survivors denied a place on a crowded chopper tried...