Word: teas
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...than 6,300 earmarks inserted by individual congressmen, including not one but two bridges to nowhere in Alaska - the notorious $223 million crossing to the island of Gravina, population 50, and a $229 million boondoggle near Anchorage known as Don Young's Way. The entire bill was known as "TEA-LU," an acronym for the awkwardly named Transportation Equity Act - a Legacy for Users, which only makes sense if you know that Young's wife is named...
...largely left behind the roughly six thousand Loba, as the people of Mustang are called. Yes, I saw two huge satellite dishes in the town of Tsarang and listened to the Eagles’ “Hotel California” while sitting in a traditional kitchen sipping milk tea. But I also watched farmers transform the desert to vivid green with centuries-old techniques and implements, saw Buddhist temples almost unchanged by time, and witnessed a sunset from a roof built hundreds of years ago. I walked for days without seeing a motorized vehicle, calling out to monks...
...Lost in America" [July 16]: I can't believe that Douglas Kennedy doesn't have a publisher in the U.S. It's incomprehensible. I've read all his thrillers, each one more absorbing than the last. My idea of heaven is settling down with a scalding hot cup of tea and a Douglas Kennedy book. Sara Kennelly, Galway, Ireland...
...Lost in America" [July 16]: I can't believe that Douglas Kennedy doesn't have a publisher in the U.S. It's incomprehensible. I've read all his thrillers, each one more absorbing than the last. My idea of heaven is settling down with a scalding hot cup of tea and a Douglas Kennedy book. Sara Kennelly, GALWAY, IRELAND...
...streets were even more deserted than usual Sunday afternoon as Iraqis could not be pried from their TVs. Most fans, facing 120-degree temperatures and confined to their neighborhoods by the vehicle ban, watched at home or with friends. In poorer neighborhoods fans without televisions gathered at tea houses. Emptied of people, the streets were given over to stray cats and dogs. The score was 0-0 at halftime, but fans were optimistic as Iraq controlled the action and had several chances to score...