Word: slow
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...like drone complements the futuristic sounds of “Womanizer” and “Mannequin,” but its ubiquitous presence soon becomes grating. And without the driving shock factor, milder songs never come together. “Out From Under,” a slow-dance track with sappy lyrics about dreams, ends up sounding like something you’d hear at an 8th grade party. In the sniveling “My Baby,” Britney thanks her children for helping her through hard times, but her repeated cooing is more irksome...
...late in the second overtime. The Colonials sport their own weapons both inside and out. Led by guards Noel Wilmore and Tony Taylor, and forwards Damien Hollis and Diggs, George Washington will be tough, and it will take strong efforts from both the Crimson frontcourt and backcourt to slow them down. Joining Lin in combating the George Washington guards is senior guard Drew Housman, who had one of his best games of the season on Wednesday. Playing all of the final 17 minutes of the game, he hit two three-pointers in the final minute of regulation, including the game...
However, the new discovery is just the beginning of a new area of research. Foudi said he plans to continue studying these slow-dividing stem cells, the topic of his next paper...
...pledged to fight and win - has become an aimless absurdity. It began with a specific target. Afghanistan was where Osama bin Laden and al-Qaeda lived, harbored by the Islamic extremist Taliban government. But the enemy escaped into Pakistan, and for the past seven years, Afghanistan has been a slow bleed against an array of mostly indigenous narco-jihadi-tribal guerrilla forces that we continue to call the "Taliban." These ragtag bands are funded by opium profits and led by assorted religious extremists and druglords, many of whom have safe havens in Pakistan...
...response from him." Even the fact that scores of Zimbabweans are dying every day from a disease contracted by ingesting fecal matter in water - which can be cured at a cost of a few cents per dose of medication - won't produce a tipping point. "This is actually a slow process of degradation," says Vines. "And it can drag on for a very long time. Cholera just draws attention to it again. The story has not changed." Until it does, Zimbabwe's future will come down to a question of longevity. Who will die first - Mugabe or his country...