Word: annexation
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...took her to the hospital. When she was released, she and her parents redoubled their efforts to find her good psychiatric treatment. Through a friend at the University of Washington, they heard about Linehan and contacted her Behavioral Research & Therapy Clinics, which are housed in a homey little annex on the UW campus, where you might find little foil-wrapped chocolates next to the coffee...
Russia first lay claim to the Arctic in July 2007, when Vladimir Putin signaled his intention to annex the entire North Pole, an area twice the size of France, Belgium and Switzerland combined. Currently, five countries - Russia, the U.S., Canada, Norway and Denmark - each control a 200-mile economic zone along their coasts in the Arctic region. None of these economic zones reach the North Pole. Under the current U.N. Maritime convention, one country's zone can be extended only if it can prove that the continental shelf into which it wishes to expand is a natural extension...
Nestled in a row of storefronts on Mass. Ave. between Harvard and Porter Square, a new establishment looks for all the world like a general interest bookstore. But browsing locals and tourists have been fooled—in reality the store is a new annex of the Coop, peddling textbooks primarily for Harvard Law School students...
...heavily guarded buffer zone manned by U.N. peacekeepers. The southern, primarily Greek part of the island joined the European Union in 2004; the northern, mainly Turkish part has been an international pariah since 1974, when Turkish forces invaded the country after Greece's then ruling military junta vowed to annex the island. Only Turkey recognizes the self-styled Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus; Greek Cypriots refer to it as "occupied territory." The North has just one extradition treaty (with Turkey), and scant police and prosecutorial cooperation with the outside world. "It's a legal black hole," says one Greek Cypriot...
...essay "Taiwan's New Promise" is too flattering to Taiwan's newly elected President, Ma Ying-jeou [April 7]. Ma is more like a celebrity than a President, and his rosy policies announced during the election will be harmful to Taiwan and helpful to China's ambition to annex Taiwan. Even though the Bush Administration is satisfied with the peaceful results of the election in Taiwan, it ignores the tragedy that a pro-China Ma could bring about on the island. Ni Kuo-jung, Hsinchu, Taiwan