Word: scabbed
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Time is supposed to be the great healer, the scab that helps us recover from tragedy. When healing comes too quickly, however, we tend to forget how bad our injuries really were. That is certainly the tendency in calamity-prone India. Soon after a flood, drought, cyclone, landslide or train wreck, the air is filled with the sound of breast-beating demands for efficient disaster management. Then the clamor subsides and the victims of tragedy are forgotten?until the next calamity...
...contracts expire on June 30, actors can still work on movies that are already written. SAG president William Daniels would support waivers for independent productions during a strike. Note to actors and writers: If your union is picketing, any work for a major U.S. studio (even overseas) would be scab labor...
...root of most heart attacks. The trouble begins decades earlier, when the inside of a coronary artery becomes damaged--usually as a result of chronic high blood pressure, high cholesterol or the deleterious effects of smoking. The body tries to repair the damage, and a kind of internal scab is formed. Years go by, and the scab develops into a fatty deposit, filled with cholesterol, proteins and bits of cellular detritus. Sometimes the plaque is quite stable, and nothing much happens. Other times, for reasons that are still unclear, it becomes inflamed and prone to rupture. If the plaque breaks...
...cleanly gotten away with it, but now all of a sudden she's paying the price. Twenty-four entertainment wire articles on Liz in the last four days (compared to two on Campaign 2000)! At the recent premiere for Bedazzled, she was pelted with flying debris and called a "scab" by angry picketers. To add insult to injury, the tabloids keep talking about her 60 year-old lover and comparing her to Anna Nicole Smith. And last week, the New York Post even gossiped about how she refused to get on a private jet because it was too small...
...After Camp David's collapse, some suggest Clinton should have followed the playbook of marriage counselors who advise couples never to go to bed without settling an argument. The summit had ripped the scab off the most sensitive subject dividing the two sides, and they had begun discussing compromises. "Once you put them on the table, you have to go full speed to reach an agreement," says Judith Kipper, director of the Middle East Forum at the Council on Foreign Relations. Instead, the administration took a breather for two months and tried in vain to enlist Arab leaders in pressuring...