“While thousands of people wait with an empty stomach / Food rots in thousands of vans / And what comes to us? / Cookies, Skittles, and paper towels.”
By this time, the people on the food line were singing, “The government does not count the dead of Maria,” back and forth, in a crescendo.
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All of which is good news if you are male. Men do, nevertheless, have
the deck stacked against them by biology. One way the cards are marked is that female mammals (women included) have two X chromosomes, whereas males have an X and a Y—the latter being a runty little thing with only a small complement of genes. Females' "spare" X chromosome protects them from genetic mutations on the other one. Males have no such protection. Women are thus carriers of, but rarely suffer from, diseases like haemophilia which are caused by the mutation of X-chromosome genes. In birds, by contrast, it is the males who have matched chromosomes while females sport the runt. As a result, male birds tend to outlive their mates.
Alex Hofford for The International Herald Tribune
By BETTINA WASSENER
HONG KONG — Owners of dozens of buildings across the city drape the
exteriors with enormous displays for the holidays — an expense that
appears to be downturn-proof.
“We all look like a bag of Skittles,” said Jackie Polk, who was decked out in purple and who booked a $600 flight to Chicago from her home in Georgia for the taping. Another fan, Sally Rudy, told Gayle King, Ms. Winfrey’s best friend, who was wandering through the crowd with a video camera, that Ms. Winfrey had “helped me raise my children for the last 25 years.”
- runt
- [名]1 （同種中の）小さな［発育不全の］動物.2 ((英略式・軽蔑))小人, ちび；くだらないやつ.3 ((英方言))老木［朽ち木］の切り株；年とった牛；醜い老婆(hag).
- runty
- [形]（-i・er, -i・est）発育の止まった, いじけた, 小形の, ちびの.
runty
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deck
verb
[with object]
1 (usually
be decked)
decorate or adorn brightly or festively:Ingrid was decked out in her Sunday best
2 informal knock (someone) to the ground with a punch.
deck2 (dĕk) 
tr.v.,
decked,
deck·ing,
decks.
- To clothe with finery; adorn. Often used with out: We were all decked out for the party.
- To decorate: decked the halls for the holidays.
[Dutch dekken, to cover, from Middle Dutch decken.]
deck２
音節deck 発音記号/dék/
on deck
1. Literally, on the deck of a seafaring vessel. The crates on deck came loose in the storm and went flying overboard.
2. Ready or available (to do something). We have a team of helpers on deck to make sure everyone here has afantastic experience. Who do we have on deck to deal with the power outage?
3. In baseball, next up to bat. Primarily heard in US. With their record-breaking batter on deck, the team is hoping totake the lead.
skittle
Skittles may refer to: Skittles (confectionery), a small candy made in many flavors; Skittles (sport), a game from which bowling originated ...
Skittle
(skĭt'l)
n.
- skittles (used with a sing. verb) A British form of ninepins, in which a wooden disk or ball is thrown to knock down the pins.
- One of the pins used in skittles.
[Perhaps of Scandinavian origin.]
cards are stacked against (one)
[informal] luck is against one. I have the worst luck. The cards are stacked against me all the time. How can I accomplish anythingwhen the cards are stacked against me?
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
cards are stacked against
Many difficulties face someone or something, as in The cards are stacked against the new highway project. This term originated ingambling, where to stack the cards or stack the deck means to arrange cards secretly and dishonestly in one's own favor or againstone's opponent. [Mid-1800s]
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