Word: thought
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...have always loved mysteries, from when I was 7 years old. The Hardy Boys, Sherlock Holmes, Edgar Allan Poe. I always thought someday I'd love to write a murder mystery. The obvious way would have been to write about a weatherman who's an amateur sleuth, but that would be a little too obvious. I've made my hero a chef. The chef is African American, a little on the stocky side and bald. Which pretty much rules out Will Smith or Jamie Foxx playing me in the movie...
...dumb, "he's cheating off a girl who thinks the square root of 4 is rainbows"). But no darker current--let alone motivation for parental monitoring--had occurred to me until I recently heard a bright, earnest youth minister tell a group of high school kids that he thought Glee was "anti-Christian...
...Ramu site had lain dormant for four decades, as a series of Australian firms calculated that the low-grade nickel wasn't worth extracting in such a remote area rife with shifting clan allegiances. But Ramu NiCo, the subsidiary of China Metallurgical Group that has developed the mine, thought it could succeed where others were afraid to try. In 2007, Ramu NiCo dispatched battalions of Chinese workers, who macheted their way through dense foliage and built a mirage-like Chinatown where elephant grass and kwila trees used to be. Today, in what was a malarial stretch of hills and valley...
...doesn't have any knowledge of public administration, could suddenly be pulled into a system that is so dirty and corrupt. Has he even bothered to think of what kind of ruin it may bring to his life and reputation? Think of it, Manny! You must give careful thought to what you have in mind or else what will follow will make you a perfect laughingstock. Herminio S. Arcales Jr. Manila...
...private students from pre-kindergarten through high school were affected, according to the latest figures from the Pakistan Ministry of Education. Up to 220,000 institutions felt the impact. "We were just asked to shut down," says Huma Ali, who runs a private elementary school in Karachi. "We thought it was a precautionary measure. But as time went by, we found out there was a threat to the schools...