Word: act
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...only good thing about most epidemics is that if you act fast you can snuff them out before a local brushfire becomes a global blaze. That's what happened in 2002, when the SARS outbreak was contained after claiming thousands - rather than millions - of lives worldwide. That's what failed to happen in 1918, when a rare avian flu made the jump to humans and killed 50 million people before it was brought to heel...
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...real issue is the committee and the next superintendent,” Grassi said. “Are they going to act collectively to resolve the problem? We have...
...radio. But dropping me off for my first year of college, she confessed, “I went to Studio 54 once. It was closing. I barely saw anything and left.” At the time, I took this extra-contextual detour as a strange, but earnest, act of de-maternalization—a PG-13 parable with the moral that, while we all at one point find ourselves in dens of vice, we can and should make sane decisions nonetheless. Recently though, I just can’t help but think that perhaps she was just as embarrassed...
...militant settler threat had prompted the Israeli government to hesitate for three weeks before implementing the court order on the Hebron eviction, but whether the raid emboldens the government to act against other settlements constructed outside of Israeli law remains to be seen - and will be determined, in no small part, by how events in Hebron unfold in the coming hours and days. The question may become somewhat moot if the current indicators on the likely outcome of February's election hold true, because Netanyahu has an ideological aversion to ceding territory in the West Bank and has made...