Everyone else started with the bloody diarrhea. Maybe that was the wrong way to think about it.
As a matter of everyday practice, it is the farmers who catch it in the face.
We crave endings for the same reason that some religious sects look forward to the Apocalypse - because it's the ending that gives shape and meaning to the otherwise random events that precede it.
... goat, the most widely consumed meat in the world ...
... as much gratuitous bouncing as the rating will permit ...
"When someone calls you in and says 'I have to let you go,' and offers no explanation, you connect the dots."
Those sounds of silence suggest that the White House is grappling with a dilemma.
US Ambassador Says Iraq Not Hopeless
The question that the conference was really exploring was this: How can we make every African family richer?
Twelve hours a night, seven nights a week, with only two or three nights off per month, this is what Li does - for a living. ... earning an effective wage of 30 cents an hour, more or less.
Don't you understand that these places can't change and that you're much better off having someone with a heavy hand, who can have some kind of order versus disorder?
"We're kind of saying, What is the next boom?" said the Senator. "I think it is a hard question to answer and I think it's wise for us to talk kind of beyond the boom-and-bust path we've been on. Why does it have to be a boom and bust? When will we get ourselves on a more sustainable path?"
Think about it for a moment. How far do housing prices have to fall before a slump becomes a bust?
"This is all black," said Ms. Wang, dismissively. "Black is very '90s."
Dr. Tattoff is part of a growing industry catering to people who may not have thought about the implications of "forever" the first time around.
43 percent of first marriages end in divorce within 15 years.
"There are some things that chemistry can't do on its own."
"Don't get up tomorrow and expect it all to be working."
"It's not all work. But there's not a big difference between play and work."
We need a lot more to play in the sandbox, so to speak.
Any woman that can write, "Summer in the city means cleavage cleavage cleavage" is O.K. in my book.
The British, accustomed to stultifying propriety in the role of first spouse, were shocked, but they seem to have gotten over it.
For individuals who are properly titrated and monitored, there is no ceiling on opioid dosage.
Skin it, mine it, fish for it, drill for it.
"Expose yourself to as much randomness as possible," Ben advises. "Read books no one else is reading. Talk to people no one else is talking to."
I have a plaque on my desk that says "Thou Shalt Not Whine." On the back is a bumper sticker that says "Well-Behaved Women Rarely Make History," which only I can see.
A short-sleeve coat? At Kohl's?
"I won't lie to you," said the great Homer Simpson. "Fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood."
"They always shoot the messenger," General Taguba said.
"All the kids were just terrific, but they ideally had to be around 11 or 12. Once they got beyond 13, they became know-it-alls."
In a feat of ingenuity and high-stakes electronic jury-rigging, the astronauts isolated a switch that appeared to be the source of repeated crashes since Tuesday and had the balky computers start up again.
All children love to get mail.
"People do not go to war with people who save their children's lives."
Doctors inhabit a world of books and journals, but perhaps the most important way we learn clinical medicine, the medicine we use in the care of our patients, is through what we call pearls -- pearls of wisdom.
Mom: "Sweetie, get back on that console. You need to spend another 45 minutes mastering your Half-Life 2 gravity gun moves."
Daughter: "Please, Mommy, can't I take a break and do my math homework for awhile?"
Mom: "We've been over this before. How do you expect to get into a good college if you don't reach Level 27?"
Daughter: "But my hand hurts. This leather glove makes it sore."
Me: "Ice it for five minutes."
What if, at least in the short term, living in a highly diverse city or town led residents to distrust pretty much everybody, even people who looked like them? What if it made people withdraw into themselves, form fewer close friendships, feel unhappy and powerless and stay home watching television in the evening instead of attending a neighborhood barbecue or joining a community project?
The quiet truth in the upper-crust rehabilitation industry is that $49,000 a month may buy lots of things -- including views of the Pacific, massage therapy and blue-ribbon chefs. But whether it buys sobriety is very uncertain.
Horror is over, gangsters are losing ground, and the coming thing is camp comedy dressed up in electric pink.
Stephen King calls it "maybe the best Ryan Adams CD ever."
I used to write for "Late Night With David Letterman", a program owned by NBC, a network owned by General Electric, a major manufacturer of weapons. When I wrote a bit for a performing monkey, was that tantamount to making nuclear weapons? I'd say not. He seemed quite a decent monkey.
Chinese food in its native land is vastly superior to what's available here.
Sperm are fast and as cute as tadpoles.
Picture a 1976 Impala improbably perched on 26-inch wheels and painted in colors inspired by a variety of Hawaiian Punch. This is what's called a donk.
Neither doctors nor patients like to consider how much of medicine depends on chance.
"It’s just a matter of time before you can get Internet streams wherever you are."
She was dying, and no one knew what was killing her. These are the most difficult cases -- patients who have so many things going wrong that it's nearly impossible for a doctor to process them all at the same time.
The multiplex is a beast that needs constant feeding, and sometimes the meal has to be cheese.
Like idle flies, a busy, buzzing train,
They drop their maggots on the trifler's brain
Consumers seem to be experiencing Internet fatigue and are changing their buying habits.
World of Warcraft, produced in Irvine, Calif., by Blizzard Entertainment, is one of the most profitable computer games in history, earning close to $1 billion a year in monthly subscriptions and other revenue.
Ignoring naysayers, the Georgia Aquarium has already replaced the two dead sharks with two new males, Taroko and Yushan, flown in from Taiwan on June 1.
The demonstration showed the newfound ability of scientists to manipulate light through structures they call "metamaterials."
The principal obstacle to improving Chinese fare here is the difficulty of getting visas for skilled workers since 9/11.
Hiding secrets and embarrassments may be a predictable part of a politician's instinct for survival. But attempting to enshrine this instinct timelessly is a stain on the Constitution and an insult to history. The administration insists that only 64 of more than two million pages have been sealed thus far. They would be a good place to start reading once Congress re-establishes the public's right to know.
It is hard to find a significant art film of the last 10 years that is not Ozuesque in one way or another.
One of the most ambitious tonal mash-ups in memory is a domestic comedy, a bloody psychological thriller and a comment on intergenerational tension and the fragility of identity.
When it came to the "liberal" press, Reagan rarely has much good to say in these pages. During his first term, favorite epithets included "irresponsible," "demagogic" and "lynch mob." ... By his last year in the White House, his disgruntlement was often encapsulated in a single word: "phony."
The interests of book publishers and magazine editors do not tend to dovetail.
John Williams's "Stoner" is something rarer than a great novel - it is a perfect novel, so well told and beautifully written, so deeply moving, that it takes your breath away.
The median price of an existing home has declined 4 percent, on average, since the peak in October 2005.
"We'd like to be able to give them the information they want," she said, adding, "The smart lawyers are thinking through that right now."
"It's great for the base, but lousy for the country."
Crocker said he and Gen. David Petraeus, the top U.S. commander in Iraq, will report to Washington in September, but declined to speculate what they will say. "It will be a snapshot, obviously, but that film can't be developed until we're there in September," he said.
A tattoo that cost several hundred dollars could require several thousand dollars and many laser sessions to remove.
"We're trying to build day in and day out, interaction by interaction, meeting by meeting, a level of trust." [ This is not Baghdad -- it's Baltimore! ]
"It's a long-term project, and the dividends won't be paid for years."
The $1.4 billion project will convert the once-blighted neighborhood into a biotechnology research center.
"The fact is, frankly, that we have all that our country is going to provide us in terms of combat forces - that is really it, right now."
The thunderous explosion in Kabul, which sheared the metal sidings and roof off the bus, leaving only a charred skeleton, represented a leap in scale from previous Taliban or al-Qaida bombings here, raising the specter of an increase in Iraq-style attacks in Afghanistan.
"These are the darkest days of my life," said Ahmad Sawafiri, 47, a taxi driver. "What comes after all of this? "We went backward 100 years."
The polite name for these operations is youxi gongzuoshi, or gaming workshops, but to gamers throughout the world, they are better known as gold farms.
Why do we care so much about how television series - or novels or movies, for that matter - finish up?
Bush administration officials, and some Democratic presidential candidates as well, are ... fearing that democracy could be a recipe for instability. While the country's military has a mixed record, they fear change, however well-intentioned, could endanger American security.
Of the people who have set up presidential exploratory committees, who can speak a language other than English?
Every major point in Mr. Blair's speech has its echo in Crabbe's verse. Mr. Blair is no mean phrasemaker, but just as Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did only backwards and in high heels, the Reverend Crabbe gave Blair's speech in rhymed heroic couplets. Top that, Tony.
The wildest and most mysterious of American places could use a reliable map to the future. Fog seems to be rolling in instead.
Raiding guilds weren't the competition, they realized; they were the solution. Donghua would put together a team of 40 employees. They would train the team in all the hardest dungeons. And then, for a few hundred dollars, the team would escort any customer into the dungeon of his or her choice. And when the customer's longed-for item dropped, the team would stand aside and let the customer take it, no questions asked. Thus would the supposedly unmarketable end-game treasures find their way into the R.M.T. market. And thus would gold farming, of a sort, find its way at last into the end game.
