Word: shin
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...captains Courtney Bergman and Susanna Lingman battled lingering knee, shin and hip injuries throughout the spring and watched from the sideline almost as often as from the baseline. Classmate Alexis Martire fared little better in her struggle to recover from a sprained ankle, missing the final three conference matches, among others...
...Carb Nation "Carbs, shmarbs! Fad diets come and go, but eating smart and exercising will always stand the test of time." JOHN SHIN, M.D. Edgewater...
...Shin Bet, Israel's domestic-security service, plays loud rock music and ties prisoners in uncomfortable positions for long periods, according to former and current agents. Interrogators tell prisoners their comrades have ratted them out, then leave them together in a cell and tape their conversations. All of this is downright charitable compared with other countries' practices. Many Arab governments, including the Palestinian Authority, beat and mutilate suspects on a fairly regular basis. Interrogators in other parts of the world aren't even coy about their work. Says a Philippine government interrogator: "Just the very act of stretching your arms...
...with so-called wild confessions," he says. In the 1980s the Israeli Supreme Court restricted interrogators to using "moderate physical pressure" in order to reduce the number of false confessions obtained under torture. But in 1999, after a prisoner died under "moderate pressure," the court banned the practice. The Shin Bet still justifies its use for "ticking bombs," suspects who may know something about an imminent attack...
...Vowz presents an opportunity for Tokyo's youth to "wind down and enjoy a drink in religious surroundings," explains Fujioka, who is a member of the Jodo Shin sect. Like Ueno, he studied for four years to qualify for the monkhood, but now seems to have found his mission amid Vowz's barstools and cocktail shakers. There's plenty in the venue to remind him of a monastery, from a miniature butsudan shrine in the corner to Nepalese mandalas on the ceiling, the ever-present haze of incense and a powerful Bose woofer system playing the synthesizer-backed chants...