Word: woman
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...Fans and journalists had lined up for hours, clutching memorabilia and wearing T shirts, and numerous individuals posing as journalists were removed from the media line. "I'm sorry, but you're not on the list," the doorman told one blonde woman with a slight accent, to which she replied, "But I've come all the way from Norway...
...hair salon hardly makes for gripping drama - except, perhaps, if the salon is in Sderot, Israel, and the women are reminiscing about life before an Israeli military blockade stopped the Palestinian men who used to commute from their homes in Gaza. "You remember Gingi the redhead?" asks one woman, as she sits having her hair blow-dried. "He used to do all the roofs. On Friday nights we'd cook couscous and invite him for dinner. We weren't scared...
...Used to terminate bad call-ins with "The Caller Abortion" - the sound of a vacuum cleaner and a woman's scream...
...something woman moves swiftly down the Rue de Rivoli, gray hair pulled back, looking like an iconic grandmother or retired grade school teacher. But as she runs a red light and speeds into a crosswalk filled with people, the woman slaloms her large bicycle between startled pedestrians - barking at them to stand clear despite their having the right of way. "Dégagez!" She shouts the order to give way. "Why are people so stupid?" (See pictures of the U.S.'s National Bike Month...
...deaths": Though the Indian media has devoted substantial coverage to fire-related deaths in public areas like schools and movie theaters, far less attention has been dedicated to incidents that occur within the home, especially those known as "dowry deaths." "A dowry death is the killing of a young woman by members of her conjugal family for bringing insufficient dowry, and is commonly executed by first dousing the woman with kerosene and then setting her alight," the report notes. But too often, such murders are disguised as accidents or suicides. "It is well known," the authors write, "that police...