Word: shears
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Giving children vitamin D supplements in infancy may shear their risk of developing type 1 diabetes later in life. In an analysis of previously published studies, British researchers found significant evidence that supplements of the vitamin were associated with a 29% reduced risk of the disease...
...between conservative parents and children who want to break free. Dr. Rajesh Gill, a sociologist at Panjab University whose 18-year-old son sports a turban, speaks for many Sikh parents when she says, "A turban is a Sikh's pride, and I don't want my son to shear his hair once he becomes more independent...
...Boogie, hairstylist and contestant on Bravo's Shear Genius...
...clusters, of mom, dad and the kids, go out motoring in invisible cars. In a big pre-Christmas dance party, the floor practically vibrates with two dozen jitterbuggers. It's a great set piece, as is a scene of trees in the park coming to life; Edward's magic shears make shear theatrical magic...
...length of Thirteen Moons but 20 times as ruthless. The scenario: a man and his son push a shopping cart with a wiggly wheel through a landscape from which all plant and animal life has been scoured by some undefined but definitive calamity--we know only of "a long shear of light and then a series of low concussions" that left survivors "sitting on the sidewalk in the dawn half immolate and smoking in their clothes." Game over, and no more quarters...