Word: apartness
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...past. And they really focused on what could bring that. And what was it? People said the Rwandan Patriotic Front were the ones who stopped the genocide. They have worked very hard to return security to the country. We reassured everyone even those who took part in the genocide, apart from the masterminds, we gave them hope. So the all the minds of the country were tuned to this...
Unconventional? Yes. Unusual? Not exactly. Commuter marriages, in which couples live apart for long stretches, are multiplying. Their number jumped 30%, to 3.6 million, from 2000 to 2005, according to an analysis of census figures by Greg Guldner of the Center for the Study of Long-Distance Relationships, a Web-based clearinghouse for research in this nascent field. While military deployments, migratory jobs and economic need have long forced couples around the world to live apart, in America today, it is more often the woman's career that drives the separation. Technologies like instant messaging and Skype make the parting...
...Living apart upends traditional notions of marriage, but researchers are beginning to suspect that it's not necessarily a bad thing. Studies show divorce in commuter marriages is no more frequent than in those where the couple is under the same roof. A large Rand Corp. study published last spring based on military personnel found that the longer the deployments, the higher the chance the marriage would stay together--in part because soldiers and their spouses cling to idealized memories of each other during their separations...
Many ngos inside Rwanda share that view. Says Schilling, who has worked in Africa for 20 years: "This project wouldn't work anywhere else. It would get picked apart, taken over, held up or crushed by corruption. Here you have an honest government with the political will to develop the country." Ruxin says Kagame is fixing an old problem. "How do countries develop? Enterprise. What made us think that institutions set up to fix Europe after World War II would do well at African poverty in the 21st century?" In Nyamata, Jacqueline Nyiramayonde, 42, describes her journey across the country...
...hover as well as a helicopter. If a V-22 loses power while flying like an airplane, it should be able to glide to a rough but survivable belly-flop landing. Its huge, 19-ft.-long (5.7 m) rotors are designed to rip into shreds rather than break apart and tear into the fuselage. But all bets are off if a V-22 is flying like a helicopter, heading in or out of a landing zone, and its engines are disabled by enemy fire or mechanical malfunction...