Word: valleys
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...Almost all the kids there are extremely rich, elite Egyptians. And there's this type--people say bint masr gadida, `girl from Heliopolis.' It's sort of like saying valley girl, Basically an extremely spoiled person who likes dressing up. And what you get used to seeing at A.U.C. is bint masr gadida, girls from Heliopolis. It's sort of hard to take after a while...The first time I say [my fiancee] she was wearing khaki pants," he laughs...
...conflict could lead to the first use of nuclear weapons since 1945. India exploded its initial nuclear device in 1974, and Pakistan is widely believed to have a nuclear weapon. The catalyst for this potential catastrophe is the rebellion in the beautiful Vale of Kashmir, an 87-mile-long valley that is home to more than half the state's 7 million people -- 65% of them Muslim. There India faces a bloody insurgency and a runaway mass movement for secession that is joined even by local police and civil servants. New Delhi accuses Pakistan of arming and training the rebels...
...side at the meeting was Patrick Carnes, a senior fellow at the Golden Valley Institute for Behavioral Medicine, outside Minneapolis, who introduced the sex-addiction theory in 1983 in his best-selling book, Out of the Shadows. Said Carnes: "What we're talking about is a loss of control and willingness to risk any kind of consequence for a pleasure that gets you so hooked you cannot stop." But other experts dismissed that argument. Contended University of Minnesota psychologist Eli Coleman, who believes compulsive sexual behaviors are types of anxiety-based disorders: "It's not an addiction. There...
While the rest of the world celebrated Earth Day, the followers of Elizabeth Clare Prophet (a.k.a. Guru Ma) in Montana's Paradise Valley were cleaning up their own environmental mess. Thousands of gallons of gasoline and diesel fuel have leaked out of underground tanks built by Prophet's Church Universal and Triumphant in preparation for Armageddon...
...Connecticut's Gun Valley, the deal was a godsend. To preserve 1,000 local jobs, state treasurer Francisco Borges said last month that Connecticut would participate in the buyout of Colt Firearms by purchasing a 47% stake in the company for $25 million. But the state has bought into a moral dilemma. Next month Colt will begin producing the Sporter, a gun similar to the AR-15, an assault rifle the company quit producing because of its use by drug traffickers. Colt contends that the Sporter will not be fully automatic, and therefore is not an assault rifle...