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...said. In the passage he read, Agu, the young narrator, is forced to kill for the first time. His leader guides his hand as he begins to hack a man to death with a machete. “I am seeing each drop of blood and each drop of sweat flying here and there. I am hearing the bird flapping their wing as they are leaving all the tree,” Iweala read. “It is sounding like thunder.” Born in America, Iweala comes from a Nigerian family. The novel is the product...
Then I saw the hostess. She was hunched over on the linoleum with a paper towel in both hands, scrubbing with determination at a spot on the floor. I walked over to her, my palms a bit damp with sweat. A lot was riding on this encounter...
AgION worked around those difficulties by encasing silver ions in a type of powdery ceramic called zeolite. Each grain of zeolite is riddled with submicroscopic tunnels that are stuffed with silver ions. It releases the ions only in exchange for others--say, sodium ions in a salty drop of sweat. So ion-rich liquids, in which bugs often thrive, activate AgION's microbicide. "The ceramic delivers enough silver to be effective," says AgION CTO Jeffrey Trogolo, "but not so much that it loses effect over its lifetime...
Security was lax at the Olympic Village. Wearing sweat suits, eight men simply climbed over a 6-ft. barrier around the village at 4:10 a.m. Armed with AK-47s, they rounded up 11 Israeli athletes, coaches and a referee, shooting two dead early on. The terrorists demanded the release of 234 prisoners from Israeli jails. Negotiations were ruled out by the Israelis, but the Germans began fake ones to buy time. In the afternoon, the Black September commander, distinctive in his white hat, insisted that his team and the hostages be flown to Cairo...
...although all the workers who make products sold at All Is Fair receive union-level wages and benefits, No Sweat has proved to be a profitable business, Neiman said...