Word: bunkerism
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...built from scratch just three years ago, on 1,800 square miles of land carved out of scrubland on the orders of the ruling junta. Naypyidaw doesn't even exist in the Lonely Planet's latest Burma travel guide; there's not much tourist charm in a dusty bunker town that is little more than the wish fulfillment of paranoid generals...
...secret government document leaked to local journalists. Junta leader Than Shwe outlined his fears of an invasion by the U.S. and lauded Naypyidaw's superior defensive position compared to the former capital: mountains on one flank, distance from the sea and limited road access. The only vulnerability to this bunker city was from the air. But even here, Naypyidaw has been blessed. When Cyclone Nargis devastated Rangoon and the nearby Irrawaddy river delta on May 2 and 3, killing perhaps 100,000 people and leaving as many as 2 million others fighting for their lives, the new capital escaped unscathed...
...Thursday, the Austrian publication News Magazin published comments from the incarcerated Josef Fritzl conveyed by his lawyer. Fritzl declared he was a good father, bringing gifts to his children in what he called "the bunker" and spending time watching videos and having dinner with them. He did say that what he did was wrong and that he "must have been crazy." "With every week that I held my daughter, my situation got crazier," he said through his lawyer. "I repeatedly thought about whether I should let her go or not." But he kept her prisoner through seven pregnancies...
...whose hole-in-one on the second to last hole of the day led to huge cheers from those in attendance. “Jessica’s hole-in-one is emblematic of the whole tournament,” said Rhoads. “We holed a bunker shot, we had chip-ins, we had real long puts, and it’s just the way things went this weekend.”Following the impressive second round, in which Harvard’s team score of 288 was the lowest mark of the championships, the Crimson had built...
...luck left Max without a stable place to live, and, in the fall, he began staying at the Harvard Square Homeless Shelter whenever he could secure a bed. In spite of the hardships, Max retained his drive and motivation, and enrolled as a full time student at Bunker Hill Community College. He continued to play basketball, and currently works to pay for his college education...