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Lemkin, a haunted refugee and relentless lobbyist, managed to construct a lasting norm, as Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary granted his coinage lexicographic admission. In 1948 he went door to door at the new United Nations and persuaded representatives to endorse the Genocide Convention, the U.N.'s first human rights treaty, which committed signatories to "undertake to prevent and to punish" the monstrous horror...
...charmed by it immediately,” said publisher Webster Bull...
...ducks. Such ducks have a natural resistance to the flu, so they can potentially spread the virus over wide areas without showing symptoms. "This may explain why the virus has reappeared in divergent areas of Thailand and Vietnam, and to me that is the real concern," says Dr. Robert Webster, a bird-flu expert at St. Jude's Research Hospital in Memphis. The fear is that this could all just be a preamble to a far greater catastrophe: every new outbreak and human infection give the unstable virus the chance to mutate further, increasing the chances it could become more...
...removing carbs from capellini is more complicated than it is from bread. The American Italian Pasta Co. (AIPC), maker of Mueller's noodles, just released its first reduced-carb pasta in February. "We needed to figure out how to reach out to the lapsed user," says AIPC CEO Tim Webster...
...skin is making a bit of a splash in the accessory department this season. Cartier is offering a limited-edition shagreen jewelry pouch, and Bill Blass has launched a new line of shagreen-banded watches. "Some customers like [shagreen] because it resembles pavé-set gems," says jeweler Stephen Webster, whose eponymous lines - seen on celebs like Pink and Oprah - feature some shagreen items. But does harvesting stingrays for fashion have an environmental impact? Stingrays are not listed under CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species. But the stingray look has some experts concerned. "Because they aren...