Word: tracee
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...years," said one (I did not ask his name, as this was a chat, not an interview), "and we never killed a single person." When I asked how many Sufis lived in the area, the anarchist side emerged. "I don't know," my interlocutor answered, with a trace of exasperation. "We don't ask. We're not a political party, you know." I wandered off, but later dropped by again to see how they were doing. With the help of a passing translator I asked them what they thought of Ansar's approach to Islam. One of them stuck...
...have the LIFE magazine cover. My dad was a cardiologist, so the drama carried out in the public's imagination was reinforced by my respect for the practice of medicine and discovery. My ultimate choice of going into surgery and then into heart surgery and then heart transplantation I trace back to that single operation...
...Hall of Opium uses a multimedia approach to trace the history of opium from highly valued ingredient in the pharmacopoeia of the ancients to the scourge of addiction that brought China to its knees in the 19th and 20th centuries. There is a re-creation of a British East India Company clipper ship's hold and its cargo of opium from India destined for the South China coast and a reproduction of a typical 19th century opium den, where a visitor can take himself through the opium smoker's paces (sans opium, of course). Patrons, according to this life-size...
...1990s fought for an autonomous Kurdish state. What We Now Know About Nuts BRISTOL It's a medical mystery that has baffled researchers: Why have peanut allergies tripled in the past decade? For those afflicted - between one in 70 and one in 200 people in the U.K. - even a trace of the nut or its oil can cause hives or, in extreme cases, death. Now researchers at Britain's Bristol...
...band’s peppier songs are undeniably entertaining and technically superb. They are talented instrumentalists and their arrangements are tight, well-balanced and without a trace of pretense...