Word: sweating
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...junior Congressman with little name recognition in Tennessee beyond his native Memphis has managed to force the state's thoroughly entrenched Republicans into a panicked sweat is a testament to Republican overconfidence and Ford's charisma. Political observers say Republicans - and even some Democrats - were all too certain that no amount of support from national Democrats could convince conservative Tennesseans to send a young black candidate from a family tainted by political corruption to the Senate. Against all political wisdom and warnings that he was throwing money away, Ford, who had no primary opponents, launched his campaign in April, even...
...into wall paint in a process similar to that of the 1950’s phenomenon of scratch-n-sniff. A white plaque on the wall instructs visitors to “please touch walls to release scents.”A fellow visitor commented that some of the sweat smelled “surprisingly good.” Tolaas deliberately chose scents that played with the olfactory perceptions of nationalities—was the strange lemon smell of panel #3 faintly European? Was #9 Indian? Forced to engage with a smell and no image, visitors conjure up fuzzy images...
...funded abstinence-only sexual education program teaches that condoms fail 14 percent of the time, contrasted to the three percent accepted by the wider medical community and cited by medical journals, according to Kay. The same program’s pamphlet states that HIV/AIDS can be contracted through tears, sweat, and saliva. “The [current] Administration actively promotes these kinds of programs without any sort of evidence base,” said Jodi Johnson, the executive director and founder of the Maryland-based Center for Health and Gender Equity. “This issue is cash money...
...only way to survive these sorts of things is by picking your battles, so thank God most indie rock bands suck.At this July’s Pitchfork Music Festival, the heat was blistering, the humidity covered those blisters in a thick layer of sweat, and festival-sponsor Fuze Beverages™ were only handing out their free samples in tiny cups, so this reviewer took much-needed naps during lame acts like Tapes ’n Tapes, Chin Up Chin Up, and The National.However, those aforementioned naps were merely charge-up sessions for some of the most joyous thrashing...
...infection persists according to Pier. “[Risk] is attributed to close physical contact of the sort you get while playing sports and…sharing things within a locker-room – anything from towels or any type of cloth that might be used to wipe sweat off,” he said. Pier also did not rule out the notion–advanced by the New England Journal of Medicine in a 2003 study of the NFL’s St. Louis Rams–that artificial turf fields of the sort recently installed in Harvard...