Word: washings
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...beaches from Barcelona to Málaga. In Catalonia alone, the Red Cross has treated 14,044 bathers for the painful stings. Local governments in Benidorm and elsewhere have posted signs in three languages warning of the dangers. The Interior Ministry has publicized advice for those who are stung - wash the affected area with salt water, don't rub it, seek assistance. (In rare cases, an allergic reaction to the sting can prove deadly.) The Environment Ministry is sending out boats armed with large nets to snare the jellyfish before they reach shallow water. And Spain is not the only...
...With Lieberman, there's something different. It's not just that he wouldn't wash his hands of the Iraq War. Lots of Democrats won't. It's more than that. He's seemed almost militantly indifferent to the disaster Iraq has become. And his passion about the war seemed reserved exclusively for those who questioned it rather than those who had so clearly botched the enterprise. His continual embrace of President Bush - both literal and figurative - was an insult to Democrats, the great majority of whom believe Bush has governed as one of the most destructive Presidents in modern...
DIED. Susan Butcher, 51, champion musher who won the Iditarod dogsled race four times, the first in 1986; of complications from a bone-marrow transplant to treat polycythemia vera, a rare blood disease; in Seattle, Wash. Of the grueling, 1,152-mile slog through the Alaskan wilderness Butcher once said, "I do not know the word quit. Either I never did, or I have abolished...
...feel the drizzle of impending adulthood. On my walk home from work, after all, it’s hard to ignore the basketball court that sits quietly downstairs. Vocal in its silence, a filthy backboard invites more than the hope that the coming rain won’t wash our scuff marks away...
Those cities include Avon Park, Fla., a Citrus Belt community of 8,500 that may pass legislation similar to Hazleton's this week. Kennewick, Wash., will consider an illegal-immigration ordinance this week too. "The government's not doing enough," says Kennewick councilman Bob Parks, the measure's sponsor, who points to Barletta as his inspiration. "I thought, If this mayor has the guts to do this, I'm going to follow suit...