Word: scratch
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...widespread custom, called cqo gio (Vietnamese for "scratch the wind"), is used for everything from colds to convulsions. A medicated oil or ointment is rubbed into the skin, which is then firmly stroked with a coin, comb or spoon until contusions appear. The practice seems harmless, says Pediatrician Gentry Yeatman of the Tacoma, Wash., Madigan Army Medical Center, who became familiar with the massage technique during a 1975 stint at a refugee camp in Indiantown Gap, Pa. In a report published last week in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Yeatman warns that most American physicians are unfamiliar with...
...their outlook on the world; searched out their motivations and methods and then laid forth their lives, mostly in their own words--but through his own wild periscope of the self-style uptown revel, the reluctant Jew, the recipient of all that his immigrant father had built from scratch long that same seamy side of New York, including what Joseph and Abbott Liebling had tried their best to shield him from. His parents' efforts led to his schizophrenic class attitudes: in his own life averse to the streets (he lived an upperclass life on an upper-middle class budget...
...ballots of all 50 states in a matter of months shows the system's flexibility and the potential for a viable third party, some analysts say. But the winner-take-all nature of electoral politics, the new campaign spending laws, the difficulty of creating a national party from scratch, and the media's emphasis on the two major parties' nominees make the emergence of a third party unlikely in the near future...
...show that such an investigation definitely "would" have led to the discovery of damning facts. Says Allan Ryan, head of the Justice Department's special unit for tracking down former war criminals: "That's no different from saying we have to prove the atrocities from scratch right in the courtroom." At least the Justice Department is not stymied by defendants' hiding behind a statute of limitations; there is no such protection in these cases...
...University and on Capitol Hill is that upon returning on November 12 for the added session, the Senate will avoid addressing the patent legislation altogether by concentrating solely on appropriations before adjourning. The 97th session would then have to reintroduce the issue and begin the entire legislative process from scratch...