Word: apartness
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...well as ground rules - and a full range of potential punitive actions - to carry them out. "The combination of the American military threat with European diplomatic firmness should bear fruit," Beltran wrote last week in Le Figaro. "But American and European governments must resist pressures that could push them apart...
...Apart from the risk of death, injury and exhaust-caused lung damage, being behind the wheel in many parts of the E.U. is a hazard to mental health. The frustration caused by sitting with the engine in neutral or first gear in a flashy metal box built to travel up to 200 km/h certainly contributes to road rage, the syndrome whereby Mr. Nice jumps out of his car as Mr. Nuts. The white paper calculates that each day 7,500 km of E.U. roads are like arteries clogged by cholesterol, at best sluggish, at worst blocked to standstill. Over...
TORNADO WINDS In rare cases, erratic winds within a wildfire create powerful minitornadoes that can shoot spirals of flame into the air and twist trees apart at their trunks...
Springsteen's liberal, humanist side comes out in the last two songs he wrote for The Rising. Worlds Apart is a new take on the classic story of lovers separated by a cultural divide, the lovers in this case being an American and a Middle Eastern Muslim. Springsteen sings, "We'll let love build a bridge, over mountains draped in stars/ I'll meet you on the ridge, between these worlds apart." Paradise opens from the perspective of a suicide bomber ("In the crowded marketplace, I drift from face to face") before transitioning to the mind of a woman...
...small theater on the Fort Monmouth Army base, cramming for a 46-city tour that starts Aug. 7. During a break backstage, the band members were playing their consummate blue-collar roles. Guitarist "Little" Steven Van Zandt says he has to move out of his Eighth Avenue apartment in Manhattan after 20 years. "The place is fallin' apart." Drummer Max Weinberg suggests Steve check out a place in the legendary Upper West Side apartment building the Dakota; Van Zandt looks as if he has just been told to eat his pizza with a knife and fork. "Yeah, for $7 million...