Word: ballast
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...media moguls? Ted Turner, Robert Maxwell and now RUPERT MURDOCH have all made news on the water. Murdoch, an avid sailor, helped Oracle CEO Larry Ellison win Australia's most prestigious yacht race, the Sydney to Hobart. Although he described his role as "acting as a bit of ballast," Murdoch also took turns at the grinder, in the galley and at the helm during the three-day race. And all this while injured. A few days before the race, Murdoch caught his right index finger between the sail and the boom and was whisked away to the hospital. A quick...
...support Fried's avid defense of free speech, but his libertarianism extends to a degree favored most by arch-conservatives. Fried's support of capital punishment also makes us queasy. Weld called Fried "ballast to the right" and "a Scalia on the court." If there's anything we don't need it's another Justice Antonin Scalia, whose teaming with Justice Clarence Thomas has given a far-right tinge to Supreme Court opinions of late...
...Ebola affair and the emergence of AIDS illustrate how modern travel and global commerce can quickly spread disease. Germs once confined to certain regions may now pick up rides to all parts of the world. For example, the cholera plague that is currently sweeping Latin America arrived in the ballast tanks of a ship that brought tainted water from Asia. And the New England Journal of Medicine has reported two cases of malaria in New Jersey that were transmitted by local mosquitoes. The mosquitoes were probably infected when they bit human malaria victims who had immigrated from Latin America...
...began to have trouble with her balance; her legs went numb. The eventual diagnosis was multiple sclerosis. By 1982 she could no longer ride the scooter; by 1984 she could not walk unaided. To help her out, Kresge gave her a shopping cart, which Les filled with bricks for ballast; pushing it, she could still get to the mall each morning...
Cambridge Deputy Fire Chief William T. Rose said a ballast--a filament which runs through fluorescent lights--had worn out and begun to smoke. "The ballast began to heat up and emit a burning odor," he said...