Word: scooped
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...pure uranium, with pockets as concentrated as 80%, far richer than the typical 1% deposits at other mines. The ore at McArthur River is the richest in the world and is far too radioactive to handle conventionally; the miners extract it by remote control, using giant boring machines and scoop trams instead of pickaxes and shovels...
Ready to start planning your next family trip? A new guidebook series, The Dog Lover's Companion (Avalon Travel Publishing, $18 to $22), offers the inside scoop on where dogs are most welcome across the U.S. Dog-friendly restaurants, shops and hotels are listed, along with such amenities as dog runs, parks and beaches. The books also rate standard tourist attractions for doggie value: the Lincoln Memorial gets four paws for the photo ops by the "stunning" reflecting pool...
...Starbucks culture. Or maybe big brands are the victim of their own excess, their flamboyantly advertised labels signifying not a sense of style so much as a slavishness to trends. Hip consumers seem to have caught a new scent and are turning to smaller boutiques like Scoop in New York City and Colette in Paris...
Being a think-tank fellow and a Second Lady are flex-time jobs that allow Cheney to scoop up from school the three daughters of her daughter Liz, a lawyer at the State Department. (Daughter Mary just got her M.B.A. and is on the board of the Republican Unity Coalition, which seeks to build bridges between gay and straight g.o.p.-ers.) Lynne brings her granddaughters back to the mansion, which has been redone to a fare-thee-well in beige and ecru. Next to the huge, stark Frankenthaler canvas and the Christmas tree strung with white lights and dried roses...
...January, they say, they'll be adopting a 3-year-old daughter, along with two dogs. Gest tells me this is a big scoop, since the tabloids accuse him of hating dogs...