Word: strays
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...Navy's half-century on Vieques was a controversial chapter in U.S. military history. Protests erupted after a stray bomb fired during a Navy training exercise killed a local security guard in 1999; a few years later, the Navy closed Camp Garcia and left for good in 2003. By then it was already conceding things it had long denied - such as its use of toxic materials like Agent Orange and depleted uranium. It also admitted that on at least one occasion, during a chemical-warfare drill in 1969 for a project called SHAD - for Shipboard Hazard & Defense, which was part...
...sense that the sparseness of the secondary characters is simply a matter of avoiding lawsuits or friendly respect for privacy. It seems that, for Hoffmann, if the truth may also belong to someone else, he cannot presume to offer the definitive version and so will deliberately stray. He is fundamentally concerned with honest communication, and he beautifully distills the small revelations from the events of his particular life. To read “Curriculum Vitae” is to briefly shadow the patterns of a remarkable mind. When Hoffman’s Japanese teacher eventually commits suicide, he next recalls...
...unusual step last week of castigating the junta for the Kokang situation. The Chinese Foreign Ministry warned Burma that it should "properly handle domestic problems and maintain stability in the ... border region." The stability-obsessed Chinese government presumably isn't pleased with gun battles on its southern flank, including stray fire that claimed the life of a Chinese citizen in Yunnan...
...most Americans say they want and fear they'll miss; both Edward Kennedy and his sister Eunice died within weeks of each other, at home, at peace, surrounded by family, after a race well run. For an eternally public clan that could not rise or fall or sin or stray without every move recorded, even death was a chance to shape the debate one more time. (See pictures from Ted Kennedy's life and career...
...your bowl of raw ingredients, choose a sauce, and the grill employees will cook them right in front of your eyes. For those with food allergies, there’s a special grill in the back, but part of the fun is noticing how there’s that stray head of broccoli from another diner’s creation. Not quality food by any (and we really mean any) stretch of the imagination, but it’s kind...