Word: scrub
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...woman, I hit a woman," he yelled to his sleeping co-driver as they shuddered to a stop. But he hadn't hurt Lees; he had saved her. Bleeding from the cuts lacing her body?her shorts and singlet no protection from the thorns and burrs of the mallee scrub and spinifex grass through which she had burrowed?Lees fell into Miller's arms and began sobbing out her tale of horror. "This whole thing is really so bizarre," says Police Commander Bob Fields, who is leading the investigation, "it almost defies belief...
...darkness that allowed the gunman to commit his crime unobserved proved Lees' savior. She was able to lie undiscovered in the thorny scrub as the man searched for her with a torch and a dog. Now the hunter is the hunted: more than 100 police, of a Northern Territory force of fewer than 1,000, are searching for the gunman, but the area they must cover?a million sq. km?is daunting. "We're looking for a needle in a haystack," says Commander Fields, "and you don't get a haystack much bigger than the Northern Territory...
...Winners WILLEM-ALEXANDER Dutch parliament clears prince to wed Argentine fianc?. He appeals to World Court. Experts say if he loses there, he's out of excuses GLORIA MACAPAGAL ARROYO Philippine Prez weighs offer to be Unilever soap girl. She will scrub the Abu Sayyaf so squeaky clean they will beg for mercy GRANDPA BUA Thai monk turned over $6 million in donations to central bank. Surprised government officials make solemn vow to embezzle the funds
...Supreme Court Justice who cast a vote making George W. Bush President, the point is far from moot. And last week the mystery took another turn, thanks to former American Spectator character assassin David Brock, the man designated by the right to destroy Hill's reputation and scrub Thomas'. Brock confesses in a Talk magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed "virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation" he could to make Hill seem "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." If that was all Brock did, we might have nothing...
...Supreme Court Justice who cast a vote making George W. Bush President, the point is far from moot. And last week the mystery took another turn, thanks to former American Spectator character assassin David Brock, the man designated by the right to destroy Hill's reputation and scrub Thomas'. Brock confesses in a Talk magazine excerpt of his new book, Blinded by the Right, that he had printed "virtually every derogatory and often contradictory allegation" he could to make Hill seem "a little bit nutty and a little bit slutty." If that was all Brock did, we might have nothing...