Word: apartness
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...although volatile. Several dozen Palestinians have died preparing the bombs. Hamas, which sometimes builds devices for the other groups, has four or five master bombmakers who prepare the explosives, according to Israeli estimates, and about 25 additional activists who make other parts of the bombs--often tinkering in rented apartments and garages to avoid capture. The total cost of each explosive belt is $1,500 to $4,300 depending on quality, according to Hamas activists. The bombmakers combine acetone and phosphate with water in a large bowl and put the mixture out to dry on roofs or balconies. Then they...
...more is at stake than Israel. The Arabs who strap bombs to teenaged bellies would see America defeated too. Those Palestinian crowds cheering on Sept. 11 were no coincidence. Suicide bombers were blowing apart Tel Aviv, Netanya and Jerusalem long before Mohammed Atta learned to fly commercial jets. Make no mistake: if we permit terrorists to strong-arm political concessions in Israel, we shall suffer atrocities that make the spectacle of skyscrapers falling in a plume of smoke look like the product of a child’s tantrum...
...strangeness of this premise is only part of what sets Notable American Women apart, as Marcus discusses this world not only in his own voice and the voices of his parents, but in a third-person documentary style as well. The text is scattered with brief historical accounts of important events in the history of the Silentists, which also provides descriptions of experiments concerning the essence of women’s names. (These are remnants of the book’s initial conceptualization: Marcus stumbled across Jane Dark while writing fake historical accounts satirizing the patriarchal and condescending ones...
...dump the guidebooks and read Mikhail Bulgakov's novel The Master and Margarita, a mix of black humor, satire and mild erotica set in Moscow in the '20s, a time not so different from now. Apart from the traffic - cars are strangling Moscow, and should be avoided as much as possible. So choose an area and walk...
...disclosure and more rigorous probing by specialists in reviewing financial data. The commission believes the bureau dropped the ball in the Hanssen case because there was no unified, professional security structure. Instead, background checks were handled by multiple outside contractors who assigned crucial tasks to generalists inexpert at tearing apart financial disclosures...