Word: brethrens
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...mention a lightning rod for fierce competition. Although Kamen trashes the automobile at every opportunity and is plotting a future in which cars are barred from cities, he insists that the Big Three and their brethren will see the Segway as no threat. "Nobody in America or any developed nation will buy one of these instead of buying a car," he says. "People will buy these in addition to owning a car." But a former top auto executive thinks Kamen is kidding himself--or kidding me. "The car companies track market share by one one-hundredths of a percentage point...
...where did I come from, why am I here, where am I going?" A second tier of issues has arisen around the question of war. Muslims and others have been doing furious research on the concept of jihad. Traditional antiwar denominations like Quakers and Church of the Brethren are challenging the more common Christian concept of the just war. Some mainline Protestants, Buddhists and other religious liberals have begun peace initiatives. Many conservative Christians are speculating about the Apocalypse, and sales of the apocalyptic book series "Left Behind" are booming...
Engine 54 sent 15 men to the first report of trouble Tuesday morning. None came back. The 45 fire fighters left behind spent an exhausting week consoling their colleagues' loved ones, digging through the wreckage, hopeful and fearful of finding their brethren. "I don't have words," says 12-year veteran Tom Hogan. "We have no information for the families of our guys. I just consider them missing. Hopefully there'll be a few more miracles today." When their 24-hr. shifts end, they return to the site on their own time. "It's not a 9-to-5 thing...
...Today's well-educated extremist, who keeps in touch with his brethren in Algeria or Indonesia through the Internet, doesn't employ the fire and brimstone of the village cleric to justify terrorist acts. Instead, he sees the conspiracy against Islam in geopolitical omens: foreign debt, IMF restrictions, wars against Muslims in Chechnya and Bosnia, and the Palestinians versus Israel. But often this cool rhetoric masks a hair-trigger emotionalism, an angry hurt. As one senior Pakistani police counterterrorism expert, Muhammed Shoaib Suddle, remarked: "What drives people to this madness? It has nothing to do with reality but with...
...victories. They knew the tenuous thrill of relying upon someone else to be fierce in competition and supportive in practice. They had learned, together, how unforgiving the world can be in competition and defeat. They were all members of a team, and at that vigil, in remembrance of their brethren, they were all teammates...