Word: tin
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...South Africa's overall economy grows at a steady 4% to 5% and Johannesburg's business district accounts for 9% of Africa's GDP, according to the province's economic development agency, on the city's outskirts lives have changed little since apartheid. Many families live in the same tin shacks they occupied under white supremacy. Most have no running water, sanitation or meaningful health care. In this sea of unmet expectation, Muyumba says South Africans vent their frustration on the only group more vulnerable than them: foreigners. As Africa's most developed nation, South Africa has long been...
...ceremony and, through the some mind-numbing plot contortions, is declared the new kung fu hero. There must be some mistake. He's a clumsy doofus for whom rising from a supine position can take all morning. Yet he is the one chosen to battle the evil master Tin Lung (Ian McShane), who'll be breaking out of prison any moment...
...damp and inedible, and many people now survive on coconuts blown down from the trees. Clean water is also scarce. Their well is now polluted with sea-water, so villagers take water from the river and boil it, or collect the rain flowing from the monastery's shattered tin roofs...
...host, Charlie Gibson, was pilloried as a gossipmonger. One exemplary moment featured Nash McCabe, a Pennsylvania everywoman in a bizarre tunic who asked Sen. Obama if he “believes in the American flag.” If so, why won’t he wear a tiny tin replica of it on his lapel? But the attention this debate received should point the way going forward: why not have “The Hills” star Lauren Conrad ask the same thing at the next debate? It’s just that folks particularly like hateful sniping...
...their heads, listen to “The Waitress,” which describes the daily routine of a waitress from the perspective of a homeless customer who’s getting maltreated and wants to die and “come back as a cockroach in [her] tin cup.” If nothing else, “The Waitress” shows fans that Slug spends his days empathizing with homeless people looking at waitresses in cafés, while producer Ant is busy conjuring up ways to work flutes beautifully into hip-hop tunes. But don?...