Word: spokes
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...Talking on cell phones is not especially hazardous - but dialing them is: Contrary to some conventional wisdom, the Virginia Tech study found that truck drivers did not have a higher crash risk when they simply spoke on the phone. But any time they took their eyes off the road - to reach for the phone or to dial it - the risk rose, by as much as 6.7 times. One potential consequence: vaunted headsets and hands-free devices promoted for automobiles may not offer much safety, as they don't address the riskiest elements of cell-phone use. (See 50 essential travel...
...State Department spokesman, Ian Kelly, said the U.S. is open to direct negotiations with Pyongyang, but "only in the context of the six-party talks." This position is no different from that of the Bush Administration. There were several occasions during the six-party talks when North Korean diplomats spoke directly, albeit informally, to U.S. negotiators with no one else in the room...
...meeting room at Temple Trees, the stately British-colonial residence that now makes up the President's official compound, Mahinda Rajapaksa sat next to a framed 14th century temple painting and spoke with TIME's Jyoti Thottam about winning the war against the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE...
...cost was high. At least 6,200 troops were killed in the last three years of the war - more than the total U.S. military deaths so far in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yet Rajapaksa's popularity remains undiminished. In his victory speech to the nation on June 3, he spoke a few lines in Tamil as a gesture of reconciliation, but most of the oration was spent in praise of "our armed forces who astonished the world by their skill in war." He linked their effort to the nation's heroic past defending itself against invaders. "The lessons we learnt from...
...press conference, Healy and Haas declined to judge the material on the tapes, saying that the recordings spoke for themselves. They said that they made the tapes public in order to remove "any lingering doubt that anything is being hidden" by police...