Word: apartness
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...safe house where she sat in a room with two couches and an overstuffed velvet chair, and watched Oprah on satellite television with her guard. For the following 82 days of captivity, Carroll, then 28, was moved to six separate safe houses. She says she was treated well: apart from being kept in confined spaces and denied exercise, she was well fed and allowed to bathe. She also bore witness to the curious behavior coming from her captors: they watched Tom and Jerry cartoons when the television set wasn't tuned to the Koran channel; one guard insisted she interview...
...more extreme groups tend to isolate themselves. I hate to draw this analogy, but it's a bit like with pedophile rings. They remain in their own isolated community, in a similar way to terrorists, in the way that you could have two cells that are literally a street apart but won't necessarily know of each other's existence...
...Many pundits claim that Lieberman's defeat is a replay of the way Democrats tore themselves apart over Vietnam. It's an appealing thought for Republicans. And it has got nice drama. But those pundits are either being disingenuous or are caught in a time warp. Democrats are actually fairly united on the Iraq War in their opposition to it - which is actually where most Americans are right now. And though many Senators are not as full-throated in their opposition as the base of the party, you don't see any successful challenges being made against other Senators...
Camped mainly around the pacific coast and in the regions of rich soils that feed them, modern Australians have left their land mass largely untouched. The great era of exploration, apart from the dash for minerals, has passed. Most travelers see red earth and desert outpost from 35,000ft., if at all. Nevertheless, the open road still rewards the curious and those with time enough to appreciate its majesty. The sheer length of the national highway, its obstinate sameness, means the journey can be a lonely and humbling experience, especially so for those in a hurry. So slow down, take...
...primary function is to link the nation's major cities, apart from Canberra. But it has always attracted intrepid tourists, and, in recent years, its commercial traffic has been supplemented by the four-wheel-drives of "gray nomads." These older Australians, many of them retirees, are gaily squandering the children's inheritance to see the country, their caravans and motor homes tootling contentedly through the emptiness of desert and bush, turning off to see the sights, oblivious to the thunder of 53-m-long road trains. For this year's Australian Journeys special issue, we decided to tootle along...