Word: shells
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...have our own ritual that has evolved over the years. It usually starts with blowing a conch-shell horn to rouse all the members. We walk down the beach, form a larger circle, do some jumping jacks to get the blood flowing. And one of our members always has a chant - a different chant each week that we always do our jumping jacks to. Then we go into the water and form a larger circle there - people are welcome to scream - and then it's a kind of open swim after that. For the past few years, the New York...
...time, no to the merciless onslaught of the calendar, and yes to staying put in 2008," says a man who identifies himself as Marie-Gabriel, a militant member of the Fonacon group, which is organizing its fourth annual anti-New Year protest under the slogan "2009 Stays In Its Shell." "Last year we warned a mocking world that 2008 would be horrible compared to 2007, and we were right. This time everyone acknowledges 2009 will be terrible, so now is the moment to unite together and refuse this new, rotten year!" (Read TIME's top 10 oddball news stories...
Many who know Madoff say they are surprised by the revelations. "Many of the assets he took were from friends and family," says a former Tremont official. "It is almost inexplicable. Even the people I have talked to who have had long relationships with him are shell-shocked...
...That seems almost inevitable. A billionaire populist, Thaksin was deposed in a 2006 military coup amid corruption charges and now lives in exile overseas. His supporters, reconstituted as the PPP, won elections last year. Even before the PPP was banned, another shell party called Puea Thai had been formed. Somchai, who is Thaksin's brother-in-law, is now exiled from politics. But other Thaksin allies will helm Puea Thai, from which the next Prime Minister will likely be picked in the next week...
...what he calls "scare tactic" allegations, insisting there's "no scientific proof that cocaine substitution would be effective." And he says that the price tag for keeping an addict in the program and off the street - approximately $300 a week - is far lower than what taxpayers would have to shell out if he or she were on the street. A 2004 World Health Organization report concluded that for every dollar invested in the HAT program, $12 is saved on law enforcement, judicial, and health costs. While both sides debate the issue, ultimately the decision on HAT's fate...