Word: tinning
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...Some parts of his return voyage to his father's hometown were not that different from his maiden one. In a modest, tin-roofed house in a nearby clearing dotted with mango trees, Obama, 45, and his wife and daughters, Malia and Sasha, visited Sarah - "Granny" - and other relatives and shared a quick meal of chicken, porridge and cabbage. Obama told reporters gathered outside the house that he had apologized to his grandmother for all the attention she had received "because of me." "He's gone a long way," says Auma Obama, a social worker in London, who accompanied...
...fighters away from the border with Israel. But that may never happen. To a TIME correspondent following the 11th Brigade as it moved up into the hardscrabble hills above Tyre, it was clear that the army's job will be largely symbolic and humanitarian. With cold war--era equipment--tin-pot helmets and clunky M-16 rifles that looked as if they had served in Vietnam--the units aren't a match for either Israel or Hizballah. Locals who gathered along the road to welcome the army as it passed agreed. "It's great that the army is here," says...
...Lieberman v. Lamont—but in the U.S. ideological battles take place on an individual level, in a thousand different primary contests. There is never a battle over the “heart” of either party, because, quite simply, neither has a heart. Like the Tin Man, each party wanders about, clucking about the need for initiative and ideas, but never managing to find either. Far be it for me to criticize the sterling leadership of Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and company; there are underlying structural causes of the Democrats’ serial ineptitude...
...with a group of volunteers helping to support young people with cancer. "They really impressed me," he says of the charity CanTeen, "so I thought I'd do some work for them." In the 3,300 km he's walked so far, Shaw has raised $650 in his collection tin for CanTeen, which was formed in 1985 to raise awareness for teenagers living with cancer. Even Shaw's jaunty bandanna has meaning; it was adopted as the group's symbol...
...states, the metropolis is known as Mayanagri, the City of Dreams. To its slums come people from India's villages, hitching rides and dodging train fares, prepared to sell spicy peanuts at traffic lights for a few cents a day and pay $1 a month to live in a tin hut. For some of them, the principal opportunity the city offers is a life of crime--running bootlegging operations or gambling dens--or renting out the hovels in which millions of Bombay's inhabitants live. Just as for Bombay's gilded lite, the city is the place...