Word: soaping
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...than in any other country outside Japan, save South Korea and China. In Sydney, government-funded laboratories are working on giving Australian foods such as jams and processed meats a more attractive taste for consumers in Japan. There are no Asian characters so far in the hit Australian television soap opera Neighbours -- ironic perhaps, given the title -- but there is a fledgling Asian presence in the arts. About 50% of the government-funded Australia Council's grants for overseas projects goes to work involving Asia...
Each night Miguel will attempt the quad only once. The uninitiated observer sees only a blur of sequined tights, tucked, spinning, floating up there like a soap bubble before gravity resumes and the jumper's hands lock with the catcher. There he goes, now it's over...
Executive producer Dick Wolf (Law & Order) at least doesn't trivialize the well-worn subject. He avoids Bochco-like comic subplots and focuses on weighty medical-ethical issues rather than on hospital soap opera. Early stories range from a boxer showing symptoms of Parkinson's disease to a couple who refuse surgery for their young son because of religious convictions. And John Mahoney, as a doctor who teaches a course in humanistic medicine, is the best gruff-but-kindly TV physician since Dr. Gillespie hung up his stethoscope...
...claims to "demolish the repulsive propaganda accusation that during World War II Germans stewed the bodies of exterminated Jews to manufacture soap from them." It calls the assertion a hoax perpetuated by the U.S. and Soviet governments, the Nuremberg court and prominent Jewish groups...
Smith stressed the fact that the second ad is better documented than the first and discusses only one Holocaust issue, the widespread report that the Nazis manufactured soap from the bodies of Jews killed in concentration camps...