Word: staines
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...will stain me forever." GUNTER GRASS, Nobel-prizewinning German author who for decades has criticized his compatriots unwilling to deal with their Nazi past, on his first-time admission last week that he had served in Hitler's élite Waffen...
...Maar, by then a recluse, survived him by 24 years. When Baldassari was invited to catalogue the contents of Maar's Paris apartment after her death in 1997, she found it full of souvenirs of Picasso: paintings, drawings, notes, sculptures?even a scrap of paper bearing a brown stain, under which was written, in Maar's hand, "Sang de Picasso" (Picasso's blood). They were all, in Baldassari's words, "religiously preserved...
...result of a vast right-wing conspiracy. I believe that poverty is our most pressing issue and that we should be pouring money and energy into its eradication. I believe that allowing migrant women and children to die of thirst in American deserts is a moral transgression that will stain us forever...
...specific references to unique cultural traditions that tend to exacerbate the problem. "Do not deface the Naira. Do not write on it," one reads. "Arrange your money neatly in straight pockets, wallets or pouches. Our Naira is who we are, and an icon of our neighborhood. Do not squeeze, stain, tear, spray or write on the Naira...
...Cleaning spots is problem solving," says Lush. The difference between her and people who instantly reach for a commercial product or call a professional is that "they see a stain as a finished thing," she says. "They don't see how to break it down. But if you understand your stain and what it's made of, you can work out what will get rid of it." Take red wine. "Wine is an acid. Bicarb soda is an alkali. So when you spill red wine on the carpet, you mop up as much as you can, then sprinkle on bicarb...