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BAILIWICK
- A person's specific area of interest, skill, or authority.
- Usage: Story focusing on the struggles ahead for U.S. troops in post-war Iraq.
Source: The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition.
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KIMCHI
- A vegetable dish seasoned with garlic, red pepper and ginger that is the national dish of Korea.
- Usage: Report on the spread throughout Asia of the mysterious respiratory disease, SARS, which speculated that the national dish of South Korea may be one factor why the nation has so far reported no cases of the disease.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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RUBIK'S CUBE
- A three-dimensional geometric handheld toy puzzle invented in the mid-'70s by Erno Rubik, a lecturer in the Department of Interior Design at the Academy of Applied Arts and Crafts in Budapest, Hungary; it was designed as a mental challenge for exploring the hidden possibilities of combinations of forms; the first Rubik's Cubes were exported from Hungary in May 1980; over 100 million Rubik's Cubes were sold in its first two years of mass production.
- Usage: Story focusing on struggles ahead for post-war Iraq.
Source: Rubiks.com.
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SEPTICEMIA
- Invasion of the bloodstream by virulent microorganisms from a local seat of infection accompanied specially by chills, fever, and prostration; also called blood poisoning.
- Usage: Story on a 12-year-old Iraqi boy who had both arms amputated after he was severely injured and burned, and nine members of his immediate family killed, including his mother, father and brothers, by a U.S. bombing attack.
Source: Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, Tenth Edition.
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