When pressed he said it was a piece of unexploded ordnance left over from the Vietnam War.

BBC: Lao people

Every Breath You Take, written during the break-up of Sting's marriage, is a portrait of a stalker, Stairway To Heaven a confused jumble of Celtic magic and Wordsworth, and My Way, while possessed of a certain elegiac quality, is the most egotistical piece of braggadocio ever pressed onto vinyl.

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On Wednesday, the same day the Journal released its story on the death of the cupcake, the New York Times published a trend piece on the rise of cold-pressed juice, an industry growing in much the same way as Crumbs and co. did five years ago.

FORBES: RIP Cupcakes, Long Live Juice Cleanses? Inside The Fickle Food Trend Bubble

U. nurses and doctors are in short supply, pressed for time, overwhelmed with patients, and hardly receptive to the idea of filling out yet another piece of paper?

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