Word: sentinels
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...historical personages who died violently, victims of unjust crimes. If ignored or abused, they can cause serious mishap, but if correctly propitiated they can be persuaded to grant great favors. The place to appease them is an extinct volcano called Mount Popa, at the foot of which a stone sentinel stands guard. A massive pillar of rock riddled with meditation cells and capped with pale green and gold temples, the 737-m-high Popa Daung Kalat, or Popa Crest, shelters 37 of Burma's most powerful nats...
...finalists—journalists from the Knight-Ridder news service, the Washington Post, the Los Angeles Times, the Orlando Sentinel and the Seattle Times—are up for the $25,000 prize, which is awarded for the year’s best investigative reporting that encourages ethics in government, politics and public policy...
Another finalist, Sean Holton of the Orlando Sentinel, reported on the Florida vote in the 2000 presidential election and said yesterday that he was honored to be considered alongside the other candidates...
Holton’s reporting focused on possible errors in the vote count in Florida and was part of a joint effort between the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Orlando Sentinel...
...determining whether a cancer has spread to the lymph nodes. Instead of taking 15 to 20 lymph nodes from in and around the armpit for further examination--a procedure that can lead to problems with swelling and disability of the arm--they are focusing on certain key spots called sentinel nodes. The surgical team injects a blue dye into the tissue from which it has just removed a tumor and traces its path through the lymph system. The first node or two that the dye reaches are presumably also the first nodes in which any cancer cells would take...