Word: training
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...they want. They can decide just how hard someone applying for welfare must look for a job--for example, how many prospective employers must he or she phone or visit a week? The states can vary how much to pay for rent and food, how much for bus or train rides (or even gasoline) to enable welfare clients to travel to new jobs; even how much in day-care vouchers to enable working mothers to pay someone to take care of their young children. An intriguing possibility: a welfare mother who finds a job may use part of her grant...
...that stars haven't broken out. Chief among them is Richardson, who at 34 was the oldest member of the U.S. softball team and almost certainly its perkiest. A former college star at UCLA, she continued to play through medical school, and now works as an orthopedic surgeon. To train for the Olympics, she took a one-year leave of absence from her residency at the University of Southern California; two days after the gold-medal victory, she returned to her rounds at the hospital. Or at least tried to. The hospital held a congratulatory press conference; the USC band...
...latter alternative would lead to horrifying results. Anyone who has taken a New York City subway at rush hour can imagine the havoc that would ensue if every individual who wished to board a train was forced to go through a baggage check. Even taking this type of extreme precaution against terrorism can't prevent those bent on destruction. Israel is ample proof that no matter how tight the level of security in a country is, there is no guarantee that its people are safe...
When Khan leaps on to a train from a motorcycle, you know that it's Khan and, from the ending out-takes, that it took more than a few bumps and bruises to get it done...
...movie also has a pleasantly surprising treat: a fine eye for physical comedy and comic bluff. (After all, dubbing can only have camp appeal for so long.) Here Chan wobbles on the top of a train; there Khan tries to leap into a house and bounces like a tennis ball off the window Chan has just closed. In another very funny bit, Chan, undercover with the help of an artificially effusive family, leads an escaped convict to hide in a village that he must pretend he grew...