Word: apartness
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...what is certainly a deeply worrying development for Beijing, the unrest has spread to other ethnic minority areas, the Chinese authorities confirmed, this time in the far western Muslim-dominated province of Xinjiang. As usual, accounts of what happened by overseas activists and the Chinese authorities were poles apart. But there is no doubt that significant unrest over Chinese rule has occurred in Xinjiang, involving hundreds and possibly thousands of protesters. There have also been roundups by security forces in which scores have been detained...
...struggle is all the more fierce because Obama and Clinton are not terribly far apart in their foreign policy approaches. For all the shouting over Iraq, both Democrats propose a limited and ultimately hard-to-deliver drawdown of U.S. troops there. Both want to talk with America's enemies--give or take a few crazy heads of state--and both want to boost foreign aid to win back goodwill around the globe. "You've got a split in a tribe of like-minded people," says Strobe Talbott, president of the Brookings Institution. But if Democrats have none of the deep...
Americans may be divided on immigration, but the presidential candidates are not that far apart. Senators John McCain, Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama all favor a deal that would combine increased enforcement of laws against illegal immigration, a guest-worker program to help businesses and a process for allowing illegal immigrants who meet certain conditions to become legal residents. So you might think immigration won't be an issue in this fall's races...
...favors the use of percussive elements as more than just backing. “Visiter” contains soothing and sweet indie-pop folk, sometimes with a bluesy twist. Though the Dodos don’t present anything groundbreaking with this album, their interesting use of percussion sets them apart from the hordes of other groups like them. Unfortunately, though, even Kroeber’s unique drum licks fail to save the album from repetitiveness, and the songs soon begin to blend together. The percussive elements—consisting of everything from insistent toms over a deeper backbeat...
What sets the new research apart from previous studies of lung-cancer genes is the researchers' effort to separate the influence of genetic variants on cancer risk from the impact of years of smoking. One study - led by scientists at DeCODE Genetics in Iceland - found that smokers who had one copy of either of the genetic variants smoked more per day than others. The findings suggest that the specific gene variants may increase nicotine addiction, making smokers less likely to quit smoking, and, therefore, increasing their risk of cancer...