Word: buffer
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...warm, and in the rain, we know these animals can get wet,” says Alexa Von Tobel ’06, a convert to the fur-craze of the winter. The hood serves as a sort of retreat from the cold, with the fur as an added buffer...
...Garrison Keillor offered recommendations on how to handle the postelection blues if your candidate loses, like taking a hike and rediscovering "the plain pleasures of the physical world." I enjoy Keillor's writing and would find myself politically on his side in the blue buffer that protects America's fervent red heart. Unfortunately, though, his advice is limited by geography. Thousands of dead Iraqi civilians certainly can't heed it. Whole schools of children in Iraq are too frightened of being kidnapped to venture outdoors. There's no hiking there. God alone knows what effect another four years of compassionate...
...Gaza Strip, intended, it said, to stop Palestinian militants firing rockets at villages in southern Israel. More than 50 Palestinians and five Israelis died in some of the bloodiest fighting of the four-year-old intifadeh, as Israeli tanks rolled into northern Gaza and troops sought to create a buffer zone along the border. Palestinian militant group Hamas said it would continue its rocket attacks. Oil on Troubled Waters NIGERIA A truce between the government and Niger Delta rebels calmed fears of regional unrest that had helped send oil prices spiraling to more than $50 per bbl. The Niger Delta...
...Antarctica. It's certainly not as chilly as those two extremities, but that's the size of the ocean and continental shelf over which Australia claims control. While a 15 million-sq.-km maritime zone cannot possibly be protected in the usual sense, the fact that this briny buffer exists offers some peace of mind in an era of terrorism and illegal immigrants. A tight border-control regime means shuffling money, people, electronics, boats and airplanes to cover the most likely - and highest-risk - incursions. Yet even with state-of-the-art technology like high-frequency surface wave radar...
...John Edwards can sometimes seem too smooth, too charming, too eager for his own good, Elizabeth, 55, is his antidote. More than just a wife and the mother of his kids, she's the gravitational force that keeps his feet on the ground, the buffer between the man she knows and the political commodity he's become. Early in the Democratic primaries, when the candidate's schedule called for him to perform the photo-op ritual of flipping pork burgers at the Iowa State Fair, Elizabeth nixed the idea as too phony. Later, when she felt the ads produced...