Word: islander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...patrolled neighborhood stores to watch for product contaminations. Local hospitals offered to X-ray the loot. In the end, there were widely reported incidents of pin-laden chocolate and strange tasting fruit. A packet of hypodermics was found in a box of cereal in Danbury, Conn., and a Long Island man was injured when he bit into a candy bar containing a straight pin. At least 22 pieces of “Trick” candy appeared around New York City: Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, Cadbury Chocolates, apples, and even Coke contained dangerous and nasty surprises...
...While Harvard is often portrayed as a bubble isolated from its surroundings, one has only to step outside the wrought-iron gates to realize that the University is not an island, but rather a plot of land contiguous with the rest of Cambridge...
...jungle will in a few years host a plush eco-resort of palm trees and solar-powered bungalows. De Suremain, a French expat who runs guesthouses in Phnom Penh, says he combed Cambodia's shores for three years before he settled on building his resort on the remote island of Koh Rong. "I wanted something where you couldn't hear karaoke, where the neighbor's dogs don't bark and where the cocks aren't crowing in the morning," he says. "I wanted something completely isolated...
...Iceland's hands are essentially tied. "We can't move the prices on Wall Street, and we can't buy all the empty houses in the States," Steindórsson says. "Those are problems that someone else has to solve, and we just have to wait." On this isolated island that has endured extreme temperatures and fierce glacial winds for centuries, this bout of economic turmoil is simply another nasty storm that the locals expect to weather...
WOODY HARRELSON plans to maroon himself on an island for 40 days. David Blaine to hold his breath until Harrelson returns...