Word: wee
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...like McDonald's, knows it's just good business to hook the customers when they're young. So when school's out, studios push their cinematic Happy Meals: cartoon fare like last summer's Shrek 2, which proved to be the top-grossing film of 2004. And since the wee ones don't buy their own tickets, filmmakers try to insert enough wit and sass and retro references to keep the grownups amused. A children's movie, never forget, is an all-family baby-sitting device...
...DIED. WEE KIM WEE, 89, well-loved Singaporean statesman who as President from 1985 to 1993 used his common touch to increase the accessibility of the office; in Singapore. A former journalist who scored an international exclusive with an interview of then General Suharto following Indonesia's bloody coup of 1966, Wee went into politics in 1973 and served as high commissioner to Malaysia and ambassador to South Korea and Japan before being tapped to become the city-state's fourth President. Wee "took to diplomacy like a duck to water," said Deputy Prime Minister Shanmugam Jayakumar, and was eulogized...
...highlands! For the seventh year running, the Spirit of Speyside festival is about to salute Scotland's best-known export?whisky. From April 28 to May 2, around the towns of Aberlour and Dufftown in the Grampian area of Scotland, you can try more than just a wee dram. The festival includes more than 150 events, including distillery tours, expert lectures, dinners, concerts, and ceilidhs (rhymes with dailies)?traditional Scottish country-dancing parties. Out of the 90 or so working distilleries in Scotland, roughly half are in the Spey Valley, and 28 of those open their doors to the public...
...highlands! For the seventh year running, the Spirit of Speyside festival is about to salute Scotland's best-known export - whisky. From April 28 to May 2, around the towns of Aberlour and Dufftown in the Grampian area of Scotland, you can try more than just a wee dram. The festival includes more than 150 events, including distillery tours, expert lectures, dinners, concerts and ceilidhs (rhymes with dailies) - traditional Scottish country-dancing parties. Out of the 90 or so Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise a new Singapore hotel Identity Parade An iconic style magazine marks...
...albacore tuna a week. Unfortunately, that warning came a few months after the birth of my first child--which meant I spent the next 72 hours frantically weighing piles of fish flakes to determine how much damage my weekly tuna sandwich might have inflicted on my wee son during gestation. Needless to say, this time around, not one morsel of tuna salad has passed my expectant lips...