Word: stonings
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...China's urban youth. More than 50 Chinese TV stations carry NBA games, and viewership in China topped 1 billion last season, according to the NBA. Dozens of magazines are dedicated to covering U.S. hoops, following the exploits of the Little Emperor, the Little Flying Warrior (Kobe Bryant), Stone Buddha (Tim Duncan) and German Racecar (Dirk Nowitzki). (Watch TIME's video "A Free Lesson With: Kobe Bryant...
Credit munch n.-- Recession-induced comfort eating Usage: "Stressed-out Britons have piled on 20 million stone in a year trying to 'comfort eat' their way through the recession, according to [a] report out today. The condition--dubbed the credit munch--has seen three in five Britons put on weight in the past 12 months." --the U.K.'s Daily Express...
...campus. We came through, we picked her up, we left. It was sort of like another world that didn't belong to me. I didn't think about college in that sense when I was younger. So it was a very foreign place, even though it was a stone's throw. It had an impact on my life. (Watch TIME's video "Election Day in Chicago's South Side...
Hotel Nassauer Hof: The thermal pools of this grand hotel's Beauty Centre look across Wiesbaden's rooftops through its fifth-floor windows. Guests are welcomed with a glass of champagne, perhaps followed by a basalt-stone massage, a water-bed exfoliating treatment or a marine-mud pack. Hotel guests have free access to the designer wellness area but nonresidents need to book a day treatment, which buys entry rights to all the facilities. A full-body massage and facial treatment form part of the day package, with prices starting at just over $230. The spa also works closely with...
...After several days of stone-walling by the Burmese regime, an American diplomat was allowed to meet with the detained American swimmer, who was identified by the official Burmese media as 53-year-old former military serviceman John William Yettaw of Falcon, Missouri. Previous articles about him in the state press spelled his name different ways, but U.S. public records online do point to the existence of a John W. Yettaw residing in the Ozarks. Kyi Win, another of Suu Kyi's lawers, said that her uninvited guest was a Mormon; a 2007 obituary for a son of John...