Word: vein
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China suppresses individual human rights. So do a lot of other countries; for example, certain Islamic nations that forbid women from participating in society. In fact, the Tiananmen massacre was in the same vein as the United States' use of military force to violently suppress student uprisings during the Vietnam era. And prison labor is not unique to China; America uses prisoners to perform all sorts of tasks. In both of these cases, the Chinese model is more horrible than that of the U.S., but only by degree. As for religious freedom, many Islamic regions of China are given partial...
...real excitement on this little EP, however, comes with the next three tracks. Together, they are smart, varied, powerful and uncompromising. At first, "As If Your Life Depended On It" seems to be a condemnation of used women in the vein of Hatfield's rant "Supermodel." However, an intricate pronoun game at work in the song reveals its actual subject: Hatfield herself. Instead of saying "I" over and over, Hatfield starts the song out in the second person, pointedly commenting on an unknown woman's pathetic dependency: "Crack a joke/light his smoke/as if your life depended...
...minutes, Becker proceeds in this vein of politically incorrect, sexist humor which leaves one laughing hysterically. He displays a disarming honesty and an amazing ability to poke fun at the differences which often separate the sexes. His goal is to help men and women transcend those differences and to respect each other, even if they can't fully understand each other. Becker recalls, somewhat nostalgically, the "caveman age" in which women were treated as goddesses and men were respected as their providers and protecters. Each had a different role in the community, but one role was just as valuable...
...aggravate the injuries. Thus it took some 40 minutes to reach the Pitie-Salpetriere hospital instead of the usual 10 minutes. On arrival at 2:05 a.m., the princess was in cardiac arrest. Doctors opened her chest and found massive internal bleeding from the ruptured vein. Although they sutured the wound and administered heart massage, no cardiac activity could be re-established. She was pronounced dead...
...medical examiner's report attributed her death to "internal hemorrhaging due to a crushed thorax and to a phenomenon of deceleration which caused a rupture of the left pulmonary vein." Her other wounds included cuts on the forehead and over the lip, a fractured right arm, cuts on the right thigh and the back of the left thigh, plus bruises on the hands and feet...