Word: shedding
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...officers, including Maj. Gen. Barbara Fast, the former head of the U.S. intelligence command in Baghdad; Lt. Gen. Ricardo Sanchez, former overall Army commander in Iraq; and Col. Pappas, Jordan's superior, who, with a grant of immunity, may also testify against him at trial. Finally, Jordan could potentially shed light on the mission of Gen. Geoffrey Miller, the former commandant of the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, who was sent to Abu Ghraib in 2003 to advise on enhanced interrogation methods that it was hoped would produce better intelligence. The Abu Ghraib scandal erupted not long after...
...nominate Mukhtaran Bibi, the Pakistani woman also known as Mukhtar Mai, who was gang-raped as punishment for her brother's walking with a girl from a higher tribal group. She deserves to be honored for her courage and determination in fighting the system and for continuing to shed light on the problems of rape and illiteracy, despite the personal danger and costs...
...Orbit, and reapplied layers of lip gloss. Jennifer, who used to be a bit on the heavy side, had dramatically slimmed down, no doubt through some combination of starvation and cosmetic surgery. Her lost pounds hadn’t completely disappeared, though; whatever extra pounds she’d shed from her hips had ended up in her bra. Jennifer’s hair, which I remembered as dishwater brown and riotously curl, had been bleached Clairol 252: Never Seen in Nature Blonde. It was also so straight it looked washed, pressed and starched...
...Harvard researcher has unearthed new evidence in the quest to explain how life can thrive under extreme conditions. In a report published in last week’s issue of Science, Assistant Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology Peter Girguis shed new light on the resiliency of the basic building blocks of life, by studying the behavior of worms that live in thermal vents at the bottom of the ocean. “These worms have been able to feed, reproduce, and live in a niche that no other animal has been able to,” Girguis said...
...such action, or demand, for that matter, has occurred in the case of the Christians. Apparently, Harvard’s Christians are used to being slighted.Harvard was founded by Puritans as a place of study for clergymen. As it grew into a more modern and progressive institution, the University shed its Christian roots and began admitting a wide range of religious backgrounds. Today, the University is rolling in religious diversity. Dharma, the campus Hindu organization, is booming: the Harvard Islamic Society recently organized an entire week of Islam awareness, and campus Jewish students flock to Hillel nightly. Ironically, in this...