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Rogue to Victim: What Australia Sees in Julian Assange

Broad support for his release seems to have grown more out of resentment of his treatment by the U.S. justice system than concerns about press protections.

This is the tale of how one of Britain’s oldest and biggest businesses went rogue – to the point where its own pharmacists claim their working conditions threaten the safety of patients, and experts warn that the management’s pursuit of demanding financial targets poses a risk to public health.

How Boots went rogue

The long read: Britain’s biggest pharmacy used to be a family business, dedicated to serving society. Now, many of the company’s own staff believe that its relentless drive for profit is putting the public at risk.

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That's right: a tornado full of cats.

A CATNADO Happened in the U.K.

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This is clear evidence of the world’s first catnado.

阿拉斯加州異軍突起的女將裴琳（Sarah Louise Palin）。..... 　裴琳能言善道，正好補充麥侃木訥寡言之不足。但是兩人聯合，仍敵不過歐巴馬帶給自由派的新鮮感。雖然輸了選戰，卻造就了她個人的聲望。裴 琳畢業於愛達荷州立大學，做過老師；現在是福斯新聞網的政治評論家，常在電視露面。她出版過兩本著作，去年推出的自傳，書名《無所忌憚：一個美國人的人生 》（Going Rogue: An American Life），洛陽紙貴，賣了二百萬冊。

Use of Lasers in Nuclear Enrichment Raises Terror Fears

By WILLIAM J. BROAD

General Electric’s success with a half-century-old idea for enriching nuclear fuel more easily, using lasers, has critics worried that rogue states might use the method to make bomb fuel.


The title of Sarah Palin's book is "Going Rogue". "Rogue" means to be pleasantly mischievous, frolicsome, a scoundrel, a scamp, someone who steps away from the rules. (Many people on television are misreading the word "rogue" as "rough" or "rouge").

go rogue

To cease to follow orders; to act on one's own, usually against expectation or instruction. To pursue one's own interests.

The priest joked that he wrote his sermons not to interest the worshipful, but to rebuke those who were tempted to go rogue.

rogue states 是美國認為北韓等"無原則" 的無賴國家之想法

rogue

(rōg)
n.

1. An unprincipled, deceitful, and unreliable person; a scoundrel or rascal.
2. One who is playfully mischievous; a scamp.
3. A wandering beggar; a vagrant.
4. A vicious and solitary animal, especially an elephant that has separated itself from its herd.
5. An organism, especially a plant, that shows an undesirable variation from a standard.

adj.

1. Vicious and solitary. Used of an animal, especially an elephant.
2. Large, destructive, and anomalous or unpredictable: a rogue wave; a rogue tornado.
3. Operating outside normal or desirable controls: "How could a single rogue trader bring down an otherwise profitable and well-regarded institution?" (Saul Hansell).

v., rogued, rogu·ing, rogues. v.tr.

1. To defraud.
2. To remove (diseased or abnormal specimens) from a group of plants of the same variety.

v.intr.
To remove diseased or abnormal plants.

[Origin unknown.]

tornado

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Pronunciation: /tɔːˈneɪdəʊ /

NOUN (PLURAL TORNADOES OR TORNADOS)

• 1a mobile, destructive vortex of violently rotating winds having the appearance of a funnel-shaped cloud and advancing beneath a large storm system.
  

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• 1.1a person or thing characterized by violent or devastating action or emotion:teenagers caught up in a tornado of sexual confusion
  

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Derivatives

tornadic

Pronunciation: /-ˈnadɪk/

ADJECTIVE

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Origin

mid 16th century (denoting a violent thunderstorm of the tropical Atlantic Ocean): perhaps an alteration of Spanish tronada 'thunderstorm' (from tronar 'to thunder') by association with Spanish tornar 'to turn'.

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The plural of tornado can be spelled eithertornadoes or tornados.