Word: spined
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...Cessation, has reproduced the self-cancelling black box as law. It has ruled that disabled children are entitled to be compensated if their mothers were not given a chance to abort the defective fetus. It has decided in favor of the families of three children-one with a malformed spine, two born with only one arm-whose lawyers argued that if doctors had detected the fetuses' disabilities, they would have had the pregnancies terminated...
...week on the general theme of The Evils of the West, Mahathir accused the English-speaking world of forcing its language on the East?and ridiculed Australians for speaking that language so abysmally. He worked up his best Oz accent to quote Henry Higgins' famous tutorial: "The rine in Spine fell minely on the pline...
...small gold lighter with the initials A.G. engraved around a tennis racket as being from Strangers, and the smashed pair of glasses is clearly from The Birds. The presentation of gleaming silver scissors standing upright with one blade stabbed into a base of red satin sends shivers down the spine as it conjures up the murder weapon from Dial M for Murder. Each object - a bread knife (Blackmail), a ruby necklace (Vertigo), a glass of milk on a silver tray (Suspicion), a black lace bra (Psycho) - is placed on a square of red satin in a glass case along with...
FORTIFYING RESULTS Just two years after folic acid, a B vitamin, was added to many grain products in the U.S., certain birth defects of the brain and spine are down 19%. Enriched food provides about a quarter of the 400 micrograms a day that experts say women of childbearing age need. The rest can come from supplements, hyperfortified cereals and leafy green vegetables...
...whole question of missile defense still rides very much on Saturday's meeting between President Bush and President Vladimir Putin in Slovenia. Remember, the ABM treaty is between the Russians and the U.S. The Europeans can only influence the discussion from the outside. Still, Putin's own spine will have been strengthened by the European position...