Word: waxing
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...Every time we see something devastating, it brings back the sleepless nights, the nightmares, the whole dang ball of wax," says Paul Howell, who lost his 28-year-old daughter Karan Shepherd in the bombing. Howell, like Doris Jones, 53, knew immediately after the recent attacks that he would go to New York City to help. Both of them made the trip, sponsored by the Red Cross. Three times a day, they escorted grieving family members on tours of ground zero...
...collection of old-time housework manuals and consulted innumerable experts, from fire fighters to microbiologists. Eight years later, she had more than 800 pages that are the final word on how to get out any stain, how to sweep a floor (to the center) and how to remove candle wax (apply ice until the wax crumbles). After reading her book, you will throw out your old sponges, always have white vinegar handy and become slightly paranoid about mold and dust mites. Her reigning philosophy is that the right way of doing something is almost always the fastest. Also, you should...
...Sophie, a blond English girl in her 20s, insists the black-trousered O-man, as she calls the Vietnamese boy loading pipes, give her and her friends the best possible dope. "Make sure it's Opium No. 1, okay?" she tells him, pointing at the black goop wrapped in wax paper. "I don't want No. 2. That makes me headachy." She came here after a few months in Thailand where she did the usual: raving at full-moon parties down in Ko Pha-Ngan, trekking in the hills around Chiang Mai. Along with three other travelers, she crossed from...
...last century and brought a taste for the black, inebriating tar with them. Tribes like the Aka and Hmong cultivate the crop in the otherwise arid highland climate, and bring it down to sell to Vietnamese dealers in the main towns. Ton pays about $20 for a wax-paper sheet of opium, 6 mm thick and as wide as his hand. Broken down into the individual pipe loads he prepares for foreigners, that nets him a profit of about $300?minus the 10 pipes a day he needs to feed his own habit. "Opium, opium," he calls out to foreigners...
...strutting his emaciated self across the stage? Like Madonna, he's another example of mutton-dressed-up-as-lamb. The Stones and the Who and Aerosmith - even U2, for that matter - don't so much reinvent themselves as become Madame Tussaud figures of themselves. And like those wax figures, the Stones look so eerily alive. Except for Bill Wyman...