Word: snakes
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...north. "You keep them on the front lines in Afghanistan," says a counterterrorism official. "Hopefully you're killing them in the process, and they're not leaving Afghanistan to plot terrorist operations. That was the general approach." But the approach meant that Americans had to engage directly in the snake pit of Afghan politics...
Here's a tip: Don't get drunk and play with snakes. It seems obvious, but according to an article in the New England Journal of Medicine, a lot of snake attacks happen just that way: 98% of the more than 6,000 yearly snakebites in the U.S. occur on the extremities, most often on arms and hands when people try to handle or kill a snake; in many such cases intoxication is a factor...
...hired in Hatu Buliko for $10, though the path to the peak is not difficult to find on your own. Climbing it is another matter. The three-hour hike is strictly for masochists or the blindly devout. The views from the summit, however, redeem the effort. Pony trails snake along mountain ridges, terraced rice paddies tumble down steep slopes, wisps of smoke rise from straw huts, and eagles hover on thermals far below. Those who undertake the climb midweek will, more likely than not, have the summit to themselves. Few experiences can match sitting aloft and alone on Mount Ramelau...
...ride mopeds - with many worthy extras: a nice debut turn by Alex Rocco as a man whose wife the gang raped; a cameo by Meyer as the sexist sheriff who snaps, as regards Rocco's wife, "Nothin' happened to her a woman's not built for!"; and the legendary snake-venom scene where Rocco instructs leading lady Haji to "Suck it! Suck it out!") Finally, "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!", which doesn't need my exclamation points, since it comes with three of its own, and which film director and cultural garbalogist John Waters proclaimed "the best movie ever made...
...successor this fall. Less than a year after her appointment as creative director, London-based jeweler Solange Azagury-Partridge was ready to present her first show for the Gucci Group jeweler Boucheron. The collection was diverse - featuring Art Deco-like earrings, a shimmering gold scarf and an attention-grabbing snake choker - but far more traditional than what she sells at her eclectic London boutique...