Word: thinning
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...grill manned by chefs who wielded steak knives like samurai. And there was the fugu - the poisonous blowfish delicacy that can cost your life if prepared incorrectly, and which can cost you $50 or more when ordered at a restaurant. I braved the fugu sashimi, cut in silicon-thin slices. It did not, as I expected, taste like death; it tasted more like record corporate earnings...
...traffic jam the results are spectacular: an almost continuous blast of horns, deep and tinny, near and far. The bass of a bus mixes with the thin shrieks of a motor scooter. Add in the noise of rasping truck brakes, the sweet tinkle of bicycles and rickshaws, the wailing Bollywood music pumped out by kids in their new cars, the reverberating bangs and cries of touts beating on the sides of buses for business, the siren of an ambulance vainly trying to push its way through the heaving mass and the general, constant growl of traffic and you have...
...ranchers trying to throw each bale precisely within reaching distance of the stranded herds so they wouldn't starve to death while looking at the food. So far, 80 tons of hay - 3,000 bales - have been distributed. But the war in Iraq has stretched National Guard forces thin. Weekend maneuvers were scheduled. Winds created inhospitable skies. As of Thursday night, no more airlifts of food to the animals were scheduled...
...Baghdad isn't the only place where patience for Maliki is wearing thin. While in public President Bush has always expressed support for him, the White House has begun to signal its unease. Even Bush joined the chorus of voices condemning the way Maliki's government handled the execution of Saddam Hussein. And disagreements over strategy are becoming more apparent. For example, Maliki had pressed Bush to move U.S. troops from central Baghdad to the edge of the city, leaving the volatile downtown area in the hands of Iraq security forces. Instead, the White House's emerging strategy has most...
Twiggy A pubescent-like body won her fame in 1960s London, but with a stick-thin BMI of 14.7, she would be out of a job in Milan these days...