Word: toe
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...into the armpits. A dozen or so injections are enough to block the nerves that activate sweat glands, but the treatment works only for those who suffer from truly excessive sweating in a restricted area, such as the armpits or the hands. If you drip sweat from head to toe, better stick with a shower...
...incidents, including the resignation of Hong Kong's top civil servant Anson Chan, many in the territory wonder whether the moment of truth has arrived: four years after Britain's colonial rulers sailed away, is Beijing about to drop its pretense of non-?interference and force Hong Kong to toe the line on Falun Gong...
Judging from the flash bulbs continually snapping around the Yard, one might guess that the most distinctive features of the Harvard landscape were an infamous bronze toe and an army of friendly squirrels. Less excitable residents might point elsewhere: to venerable architecture in the form of slate-roofed, red-brick first-year houses, antique classrooms, wide stone archways, marble staircases, heavy doors, high windows and ubiquitous commemorative plaques. Others might cite the iron fence circling the Yard and its largely closed gates, inviting the rest of the world to look but not touch...
...phrase scientific fieldwork didn't conjure up enough images of toe rings, bandannas and Birkenstocks, a team of researchers from the University of Utah cemented the scientist/stoner equation forever this week by naming a dinosaur after ex-Dire Straits frontman MARK KNOPFLER. Masiakasaurus knopfleri was discovered in Madagascar and christened after the aging rock star because the researchers listened to a lot of Brothers in Arms while working under the hot island sun. Masiakasaurus lived during the late Cretaceous period and was probably 5 ft. to 6 ft. long, weighed in at 80 lbs. and sported protruding snaggleteeth used...
...something of a cult figure/ elder statesman in Brazilian music, effortlessly blending samba and the blues; imagine a middle-aged South American Robert Johnson and you've pretty much got it. He with two acoustic guitarists on either side. He started out with the song "Fadas" a graceful, toe-tapping tune that that skips along as lightly as a stone across a pond. Next he flowed into the goodhearted song "Diz Que Fui Por Ai"; during the instrumental break, he couldn't resist dancing around his stool as his guitarists carried the melody. It was pure enchantment; not just Brazilian...