Word: tilling
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...LATEST RIPOFF This con-artist ploy gives new meaning to the phrase "Shop till you drop." A letter in this month's Journal of Accident and Emergency Medicine reports on two British women who feigned collapse at cashier's counters every few days. When they were put into ambulances, bystanders also packed in their goods. Once at the hospital, "recovery is rapid." Result: free, if felonious, shopping...
...universally dismissed as a hoax--merged with deeper American memories of race and rape and lynching (the mobs sometimes made up of white law officers). Tawana's lie claimed the prestige of tragic precedent and a legacy of sacred indignation. Tawana became indistinguishable in moral terms from, say, Emmett Till, the Chicago 14-year-old lynched in 1955 in Tallahatchie County, Miss., for daring to get fresh with a white woman...
...Right now we're out of bumper stickers," says Chamber of Commerce president Anne Sweitzer, whose office is a museum of spiritual quotations, such as this gem: THE HEART NEVER RESTETH TILL IT FINDETH REST IN THEE. "But we're very proud to be the fire-hydrant capital of the world...
PARIS: They partied all night in St. Denis, suburban home of the Stade de France. Anywhere between 800,000 and 1.5 million of them partied all night on the Champs-Elysées. Even in far-flung London, ex-pats danced in the fountains of Trafalgar Square till dawn. France's surprise 3-0 victory over Brazil in the World Cup final Sunday has prompted what one Parisian daily, France-Soir, called a "tricolor orgasm" -- one that looks set to blend seamlessly into Tuesday's Bastille Day celebrations. Writing in Le Parisien, one journalist even suggested that July...
...renminbi ($1,250) each. Now the local officials are saying it will be just 7,000 renminbi. They will try to keep the rest." The new land is on top of a mountain, so it will not be nearly so good for farming as the rich alluvial soil they till now by the river's edge. "Everyone here is angry," he says...