Word: though
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BENZIDINE-BASED DYES Nothing harmful about these compounds, which are used to color textiles and paper--until they're inhaled or enter the mouth. Once in the body, though, they break down into free benzidine, a cause of bladder cancer...
...Even though the typical Gator earns only $11,700, plus a rent allowance, for a six-month hockey season, there has been a spirited competition among league players to win a berth in Lafayette--and keep it. That helps explain the team's excellent play: it posted a 43-18-9 regular-season record, including nine victories against its in-state archrivals. "We've had our way with them, and our fans take a lot of pride in that," Regard says. "People are learnin' to hate Baton Rouge and New Orleans all over again...
...King of the Franks, who died in 814, as a "lusty" man who "loved to swim." As luck would have it, she says she met up with him again in this lifetime, reincarnated as the late Swedish Prime Minister Olaf Palme. She reports the two had an affair and though they "fit in every way," he was concerned about how the press would perceive their union. If journalists had known it was a relationship that had withstood 1,200 or so years, surely they would have been understanding...
Glam and grim: that is the Cannes cocktail. Though flashbulbs still pop and traffic stops for stars like Elizabeth Taylor and Calista Flockhart, the festival no longer pays much notice to big-budget Hollywood films, and the feeling is mutual. Gladiator is not here, nor Mission: Impossible 2. Gilles Jacob, the Cannes program director, who will step down after the current festival, has not been to Hollywood in five years. Instead, he woos the reigning masters of Europe and Asia, as well as America's indie auteurs. Jacob wants the universe of movie people in Cannes to find artistic life...
...snake" grows, and the more points you get. To maneuver, you press the 2 key to move up, the 8 key to go down and so on. I was even more impressed by the upcoming version of Tetris that Ericsson managed to squeeze into its T28 world phone. Even though the screen is no bigger than a piece of Trident gum, I had as much fun playing my favorite video game as I ever did on a computer...