Word: knifing
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...After the disaster, it will be harder to stifle the civic impulses of people like Chen Gang, the president of a Chengdu knife-manufacturing company who scrambled to help with relief efforts. The country was focused on material things, Chen says, but the earthquake forced people to remember their fellow citizens. "The whole country suddenly united. It was really miraculous," says Chen, 49. "For the nation historically, when you come back later it will be [considered] a good thing. I'm not talking about the party, I'm talking about this land." The Wenchuan earthquake has exposed how much China...
...Most middle-class and wealthy Londoners were blissfully ignorant of conditions in Whitechapel until the autumn of 1888, when Scotland Yard realized that a serial killer was loose in the area, and Fleet Street helped create the legend - and even the name - of the knife-wielding "Ripper." Until the brutal slayings ended some two and a half years later, sensationalistic coverage of the Ripper was relentless, his exploits recounted by reporters and artists in a manner that exposed the squalor of Whitechapel to a fascinated audience - and shaped London's perception of the East End. Playwright George Bernard Shaw once...
Though the White House says Bush meant no offense with his comments at the Knesset today, White House spokesperson Dana Perino twisted the knife further in comments to reporters after the speech. "I understand when you're running for office you sometimes think the world revolves around you," she said of Obama. Of course, by targeting Obama, Bush only falls into orbit around him. But that may be the only way to get attention and fight for his legacy in the remaining months of his presidency. For better or worse, Obama will try to make the most of it. Which...
...says. “Here it’s beautiful too, but in a sense it’s commerialized.”Safety is one aspect of the developing world that Wu says students should know about before they travel. Wu described one incident when thieves had a knife to her throat“Before I went, people were telling me how Botswana is extremely safe, but in reality, it’s still a developing country,” Wu says. “Students traveling abroad don’t think that [crimes] will happen to them...
Domingo Ramirez is a cutter on the tie-factory floor. He unrolls silk fabric from a long bolt and smooths it out on the cutting table. Then he lays down a cardboard pattern, draws a chalk outline and cuts the material with a circular knife. Like cutters around the world, Ramirez does this a hundred times a day. But unlike almost all of them, he does it in the U.S.--in New York City, specifically, just a 15-minute car ride from the Madison Avenue headquarters of his employer, Brooks Brothers...