Word: tropics
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...citizen toward stylistic conformity. After all, who can forget the Japanese tourists who thronged exclusive boutiques in Paris or Milan, all loading up on exactly the same must-have purse or belt? Or the platinum-haired, deeply tanned kogyaru look that painted Tokyo teens like a badly conceived Hawaiian Tropic advertisement? But Japan today boasts a diversity of expression unmatched anywhere in Asia. Years of recession have galvanized a generation of faceless students, salarymen and office ladies to shed the uniforms they associate with the failure of the bubble years and probe unexplored fashion territory. "We've reached a point...
...TROPIC OF CANCER Cancer was once thought of as a "Western" disease, the consequence of overabundance and overindulgence. But the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that the rest of the world is quickly catching up. Cancer rates are climbing and could increase 50% by 2020, largely the result of longer life expectancies and changing lifestyles in developing countries. WHO estimates that a third of these cases could be prevented by eating better and avoiding tobacco. --By David Bjerklie
...added that Iraq's exotic weapons programs also involved the use of psycho-tropic agents similar to LSD. ?They were not meant to kill, just incapacitate, confuse,? says the inspector. This had been designed, he says, as a means to fight off rag-tag Iranian forces in the late 1980?s during the long war between Baghdad and Tehran. The other WMD weapons Iraq may still have were initially designed to ?fight off Iranian human wave attacks, they really weren't meant against a force like the U.S. military...
...woman fearing blame; Meek, destitute, as seemed, of hope or aim She sate, from notice turning not away, But on all proffered intercourse did lay A weight of languid speech, or to the same No sign of answer made by word or face: Yet still her eyes retained their tropic fire, That, burning independent of the mind, Joined with the lustre of her rich attire To mock the Outcast - O ye Heavens, be kind! And feel, thou Earth, for this afflicted Race...
Around this time Atta and other hijackers purchased global-positioning devices known as GPS-3s from Tropic-Aero, an aviation-supply shop in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. These $475 devices, about the size of Game Boys, are used by pilots to navigate. Says Jerry Carbone, Tropic-Aero's president: "It's so simple to use, you and your wife would be able to find your way in a 767 once it's up. It's sad if [the hijackers] were able to use something anyone can get at K Mart...