Word: apartness
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...terrorists believed to have spent time in al-Qaeda camps are still on the loose. Efforts to apprehend al-Qaeda fighters in Afghanistan have slowed, as thousands have bought safe refuge in the hamlets and villages of the Afghan countryside. "The mission is to take al-Qaeda apart piece by piece," says Mohammed Anwar, the head of intelligence in Mazar-i-Sharif. "But it's very difficult work." CIA, FBI and military intelligence officials have spent eight weeks interviewing the 300 detainees in Cuba for information on the whereabouts of the al-Qaeda leadership, but defense sources told TIME that...
...angry over proposed cuts in the state's already skimpy health program sent their children to the Governor's office with valentines pleading DON'T BREAK OUR HEARTS. Tennessee's health plan, hailed only a few years ago as a national model for covering the working poor, is falling apart as its cost approaches $6 billion a year. As many as 500,000 people may be dropped. In Florida a 1999 state Chamber of Commerce survey found that 91% of businesses provided health insurance for their employees; by last fall, the figure had dropped...
...leave behind?" he says. And his oeuvre is, frankly, spotty. No one can take away Mork & Mindy; Good Morning, Vietnam; or his Oscar for Good Will Hunting. But Williams is a recovering schmaltzaholic, having engaged in a dangerous number of Patch Adams- and Mrs. Doubtfire-type roles. As therapy, apart from performing before 39 live audiences in 26 cities over the next two months, he's beating a woman to death in rural Alaska (in Insomnia, with Al Pacino), plotting the downfall of a TV rival (in Death to Smoochy) and stalking an adulterer, with a carving knife...
...mined from wires and internal circuitry. But in China, which according to ban receives nearly 90% of America's castoffs, recycling is a crude process carried out in places like Guiyu by tens of thousands of peasants equipped with the most rudimentary of tools. Components must be laboriously broken apart by hand. Some are dipped in acid baths to leach out precious metals, while the plastic covering on wiring is sometimes burned away to free the copper underneath...
...Buddhist event of this magnitude, the church has hosted several other talks by practicing Buddhists, including a visit last year by Joseph Goldstein, co-founder of Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Mass., and a planned visit by prominent female Tibetan Buddhist Pema Chodron, author of When Things Fall Apart...