Word: crystallizes
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...dreadlocked revelers smoked celebratory reefers in the streets, no armies of conservatives protested, the Mexican media raised no hullabaloo. Quietly and with little ado, Mexico last week enacted a law to decriminalize possession of small amounts of all major narcotics, including marijuana, cocaine, heroin, ecstasy and crystal meth. Anyone caught in Mexico with two or three joints or about four lines of cocaine can no longer be arrested, fined or imprisoned. However, police will give them the address of the nearest rehab clinic and advise them to get clean...
...says. But Morch is encouraged by the fact that as soon as the incident was made public, the central government fired off a stern warning to the local authorities that they had violated the law, and they wanted assurances that this will not be repeated. "The law is crystal clear and the policy is crystal clear," says Morch, which shows incredible progress. "Now it really is a question of parents understanding. They need to be educated, and we have a long ways to go on this in Vietnam...
...Number of Oscars won by the film When Harry Met Sally, in which Billy Crystal's Harry sat with Meg Ryan's Sally while she faked an orgasm at a table in Katz's Delicatessen, where a sign now reads: "Congratulations! You're sitting where Harry met Sally...
...House simply didn't have a handle on the seriousness of our economic ills. When an interviewer posed a similar question on National Public Radio, the chair of the President's Council of Economic Advisers, Christina Romer, replied, "It's important to realize that none of us has a crystal ball...
...concerts, invested more than $20 million to bring about "one of the greatest musical events in history," replete with 22 sets, high-wire acrobatics and elaborate pyrotechnic lighting. Just last week, producers revealed that Swarovski would crown Jackson, his costumes and the sets with 300,000 pieces of crystal, adding even more glitter to the massive 20,000-seat O2. (See pictures of people around the world mourning Michael Jackson...