Word: strike
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...just that all of these names are a nuisance to spell and a mouthful to pronounce - though they are. It's that they strike us as downright dangerous. That, at least, is the conclusion of a new study published in the journal Psychological Science - and it's a study that ought to give pause to any manufacturer with a product to brand or parent with a baby to name. (See the top 10 medical breakthroughs...
...their return from Afghanistan, and it was after he was freed that Fazlullah returned to the Swat Valley village of Imam Dheri, operating the yellow-painted chairlift that ferries people across the Swat river. According to local lore, it was after his brother was killed in a U.S. missile strike on the village of Damadola in Bajaur in 2006 that Fazlullah seized control of a pirate radio transmitter and began delivering sulfurous sermons. "Mullah Radio," as it became known, quickly developed a following. Fazlullah's twice-daily addresses preached jihad and exhorted listeners to donate money and jewelery...
...expansion fees, and another 324 games to the inventory of moneymaking possibilities. Attendance jumped 12%, with almost seven and a half million more people paying their way into ballparks. The per-game major league average improved by 4% to 29,054, the best it had been since before the strike hit. The ratings for games televised by Fox improved...
...David Wells threw his perfect game, a rookie Cubs pitcher named Kerry Wood struck out a record-tying 20 batters and the age-defying Roger Clemens, while in the employ of the Toronto Blue Jays at that stage of his pitcher-for-hire phase, became the first pitcher to strike out 18 or more batters in a game for the third time...
...sniffling and coughing their way through yet another achy flu season. If there is any solace in the suffering, it's that so far, the Big One - the pandemic that experts predict could emerge from birds or cats or some other animal reservoir at any time - has yet to strike. (See the top 10 animal stories...