Word: silver
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JOHN KERRY'S SILVER STAR Regardless of their politics, players at kumawar.com can try to re-enact Kerry's much-scrutinized swift-boat mission. Using satellite images and input from veterans, the site attracts some 300,000 visitors a month to games based on actual military events--ŕ la Uday and Qusay's Last Stand--that are so realistic the U.S. Army is starting to use them for training. GRAND THEFT AUTO: SAN ANDREAS As former gang members debate its authenticity on online message boards, politicians and parents' groups condemn the No. 1--selling video game for glorifying street culture...
...during the Christmas pageant rehearsal on the Sunday before Thanksgiving, she was not concerned with any of that. Instead, she was unpacking a shimmering, silver gown with two large cardboard wings trimmed with gold stars that she will Velcro to her shoulders a couple of weeks from now. A floral wreath, spray-painted gold, will bedeck her head. All eyes will be upon her. But the costume will not be the draw. In the Arlington Heights pageant, she will play the angel who carries the baby Jesus to the manger at the front of the sanctuary...
...experience of going to bed with a problem, getting a good night's sleep and waking up in the morning, and there's a solution," says Dr. Gregory Belenky, who recently retired as head of sleep research at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research in Silver Spring, Md., and is now at Washington State University at Spokane. But instead of thinking that extra information processing is going on during sleep, he says it makes as much sense to suggest that depleted circuits are just being rejuvenated...
...survey, 12% of locals could not tell their flag from Australia's. Some would prefer the banner above, depicting the silver fern, a Kiwi icon
...others from near-certain slaughter. The story piqued the interest of Belfast-born filmmaker Terry George, a one-time Oscar nominee best known for the screenplay In the Name of the Father (1993). George searched for a Hollywood studio that would bring Rusesabagina’s story to the silver screen. But several top Hollywood execs refused to put their money behind the film. “They all thought it was a good script, but they weren’t interested in making it,” George admits in a recent interview...