Word: stops
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Winners of Ig Nobel prizes are allowed a one-minute acceptance speech. Every year, if and when they go over the limit, Miss Sweetie Poo walks up to them and whines, "Please stop. I’m bored." According to Isabel’s mother, Rachel Kadel-Garcia ’98, "it takes a few repetitions before she is successfully dismissed." Two to three girls from the Boston area audition each year for the coveted role...
...cranky," she admits. She was allowed more freedom at the Ig Nobel ceremony. "I really did like it when Marc said, ‘Isabel, you’ve done enough now,’ even though he knew that I wasn’t going to stop," she says...
...nations that can’t even afford to treat diseases with high mortality rates, let alone influenzas that much of the public doubts pose serious threats? The UN expressed concerns in a recent statement, urging the world’s wealthier nations to donate more vaccines to help stop the impending epidemic. The United States, Brazil, and France have all agreed to donate 10 percent of their vaccine stockpiles to other nations, with manufacturers providing an additional 150 million vaccines, but in the face of H1N1 potentially reaching a third of the population, this may not be sufficient...
...Americans now say things are going badly for the U.S. in Afghanistan. And few are saying that as vehemently as those who have picked the anniversary as their day to demonstrate. Student organizations on 25 college campuses, along with members of antiwar groups like the coalition Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) and Veterans for Peace are holding rallies on Oct. 7; others have already descended on Washington. On Oct. 5, 61 people were arrested in a demonstration in the capital, including Cindy Sheehan, the onetime face of the Iraq antiwar movement, who chained herself...
...alleged crimes are truly abhorrent. He was the Hutu intelligence chief at the time of the genocide and is believed to be one of the people most responsible for the horror. The particulars are grisly. His men allegedly killed 600 Tutsi students at Butare University, and they didn't stop there. Patients at a nearby hospital were dragged from their beds and hacked to death. Nizeyimana purportedly ordered Rwanda's ceremonial queen, Rosalie Gicanda, to be taken from her home and killed. Gicanda's elderly bed-ridden mother was killed days later...