Word: scratchings
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...titanic Christ the Redeemer statue. But many of the venues for the 2016 Games--including the Joăo Havelange Olympic Stadium, where track-and-field events will take place--don't meet IOC standards or will require extensive renovations. Nearly 20 will need to be built from scratch. Cariocas, as Rio's residents are called, are still reeling from the final bill for 2007's much smaller Pan American Games, which ended up costing the city 10 times the original $177 million estimate. The 2016 Games' $14 billion budget includes a $427 million Olympic Village for athletes, but lodging...
...Then again, the hypothetical Martian would also scratch his head at the notion of paper money. The dollar has no intrinsic value. It has become the world's storehouse of value because it is backed by the economic might of the U.S. If another super-economy emerges, be it the European Union, China, India, Brazil or Russia, then that new power's currency could replace the dollar as the world's reserve currency, just as the dollar replaced sterling in the last century. (See pictures of the best-selling cars in China...
...missing this place because the crowd at Harvard is very educated,” said Kapoor, who immigrated to Mass. from New Delhi in 1978 and has been in the restaurant business since 1981. “I think I’ll have to start from scratch, but I’ll make...
...crack was the problem. Crack causes intensely hot cocaine molecules to attach to lung cells. The body begins to produce antibodies against this damaged tissue, but ultimately, rather than deciding that it is alien, the body views the cell clusters as "self" and doesn't fight them. (Similarly, allergists scratch the skin and expose it to allergens like grass seed to produce this kind of desensitization.) "They're a body constituent as far as [the immune system] is concerned," says Dr. Tom Kosten, professor of psychiatry at Baylor College of Medicine and the lead author of the study. (Read "Will...
...against Brown,” said senior running back Cheng Ho, “we have to be aware that there’s no such thing as a letdown. They’re very hungry for a win. They’ll claw, they’ll scratch, [they will] do whatever it takes. We’re expecting great intensity from them...