Word: apartness
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Consider two countries half a world apart and far from the Islamic heartlands: the Philippines and Britain. It was in Manila, that most Catholic of cities, that Mohammed Sadeek Odeh found his vocation. Sentenced to life imprisonment on Oct. 18 for his part in the 1998 bombings of the American embassies in Kenya and Tanzania, Odeh seemed to have lived the predictable life of an al-Qaeda operative--he was born to exiled Palestinians in Saudi Arabia and grew up in Jordan. Yet he turned to radical Islam while studying engineering in the Philippines. It was there that Odeh first...
...stresses impinge on all couples, but the effects can vary. In some cases the marriage can actually be strengthened. "It either brings you together or pushes you apart," says gerontology professor Wagner. Charlene Lowry, 48, a corporate trainer in Centennial, Colo., views her husband Jim, also 48, as her "anchor," practically and emotionally. While she works, her husband runs an Internet consulting firm from home and watches her dad, who's in the late stages of Alzheimer's and lives with them. Jim also greets their 14-year-old son and 12-year-old daughter after school. "He's always...
What spells the difference between couples like the Lowrys and those who feel torn apart by the burden? One factor is a couple's goals at the start of their marriage, suggests David Leckey, 53, a writer and the husband of Margaret Neal, 49, a gerontologist who studies caregiving. "If you go into a marriage thinking, 'This is about me and my wife,' family is a drag on that. We're into the idea of the extended family, that it's all part of the package," he says of his marriage of 13 years. Three years ago, Leckey supported...
...look at what’s already on our plate. To win the war against terrorism, we first have to solve the Israel-Palestine conflict and settle the 50-year-old crisis in Kashmir. We have to restore order in Pakistan, a country on the verge of falling apart, without irreparably casting our lot with its military government and against its people. And we have to create order ex nihilo in Afghanistan, a country that has rarely in modern times known peace...
...Nigerian soldiers gunned down at least 130 people, including women and children, before President Olusegun Obasanjo ordered them to stop. The killings were to avenge the hacking to death of 19 soldiers sent into Makurdi, capital of the central state of Benue, to keep warring Tiv and Jukun tribes apart...