Word: stingingly
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...barricades. "We cannot remember a time when the students of Taiwan were so united by a burning rage," head-scratched the Taipei Times. The source of this unrest: two weekends ago, authorities in southern Tainan busted into a university dorm room where students were burning bootleg CDs. The predawn sting yielded one guilty coed and 14 MP3-laden computers, which authorities said undermined intellectual property laws. Within days, students compiled a 3,000-signature petition and demonstrated before visiting Taipei Mayor Ma Ying-jeou. By Thursday the movement had spread to Taipei, where students wore yellow armbands symbolizing digital solidarity...
Chiropractors too have felt Barrett's sting. While he sees benefits in chiropractic manipulation, he wonders about "a whole profession based on an idea--subluxations--that isn't true." He especially deplores the fact that some chiropractors claim that their manipulations can treat infectious diseases and prescribe homeopathic remedies, which he considers worthless...
...example, of countless beguiling or corrosive fashions. If they could make cocaine and tattoos fashionable, perhaps they could goad the masses toward physical and spiritual enlightenment. Today yoga is practiced by so many stars with whom audiences are on a first-name basis--Madonna, Julia, Meg, Ricky, Michelle, Gwyneth, Sting--that it would be shorter work to list the actors who don't assume the asana. (James Gandolfini? We're just guessing...
...investigators will reveal the results of the latest sting...
...Seven produced valid identifications, the investigators' report said, but one woman with a Midori sour said she had no ID. When the investigators informed her they were conducting a sting, the woman began to cry. She told them she was 20 and that her friend who had already left the bar was in possession of the fake driver's license she had used to enter...