Word: swirl
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...found it exciting not only to reflect on the varied and often controversial currents that swirl around women's daily lives, struggles and victories in America today, but also to look at the challenges that lie ahead. We consider that task highly important, and TIME is committed to pursuing it without stint in the months and years ahead. We hope you get as much satisfaction from reading this issue as we did from preparing...
...Soviet Union, the mismanagement of land around the Aral Sea has cut it off from its sources of water, causing the volume of the once giant lake to shrink by two-thirds in 30 years. Now storms of salt and pesticides swirl up from the receding shoreline, contaminating the land and afflicting millions of Uzbeks with gastritis, typhoid and throat cancer. In Beijing, one-third of the city's wells have gone dry, and the water table drops by as much as 2 meters (2.2 yards) a year. In the Western U.S., four years of drought have left municipalities...
Kyaw Lin hangs out with the other kids at Komura, doing chores and waiting for the orders of Lieut. Brown, 38, a Karen who lost his right leg to a mine ten years ago. His stump is covered by an intricate blue swirl of tattoos. Unable to go out on patrol, he trains the children and the volunteers from nearby villages. Brown insists that the children are not forced to fight, and he says he tries to keep them back. But, he acknowledges reluctantly, sometimes they do go to war. He adds that the children are mostly good fighters...
THANKS, BUT WE'LL HAVE THE CHOCOLATE CHIP FUDGE SWIRL. The U.S. Department of Agriculture has announced the development of Oatrim, an oat-bran extract that can serve as a fat substitute in desserts and other foods. This dismayed Murtaugh/Match, a small Wisconsin food-consulting firm that claims to hold the patent on oat bran-based frozen desserts. Explains Timothy Murtaugh: "We take advantage of the creamy, smooth texture of oats once they are cooked, like oatmeal." Says a USDA patent adviser: "We feel there's an opportunity for both to be allowed and licensed within their own commercial niches...
...aloft in the dark void of space, the Hubble promises a leap in astronomical observing power unlike anything since 1609, when Galileo first pointed a telescope at the heavens. As never before, astronomers have a realistic hope of seeing planets that orbit distant stars, watching tidal waves of energy swirl around black holes and spotting the birth of galaxies. The Hubble, says presidential science adviser D. Allan Bromley, "will open entirely new windows on the universe...