Word: cowing
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...that the millennial anxiety about scientific and technological breakthroughs predates particle physics. When the locomotive was first conceived, for example, even some engineers predicted catastrophe resulting from the human body's inability to withstand the strains of high-speed travel. The word vaccine comes from the Latin word for cow, vacca - and the first vaccinations, against smallpox, used bovine ingredients, leading to widespread fear that the injections would turn humans into cows...
...Moscow thought the threat of nuclear retaliation would cow Poland into rejecting a controversial U.S. missile shield, it learned otherwise over the weekend, as the Polish press and public rallied around a government decision to endorse the deployment...
...ability to read Chinese was already poor, and all I could pick out was some choice vocabulary like "cow" and "noodles...
...Lopez Lomong was living in a Kenyan refugee camp, one of the Lost Boys of the Sudan who had seen unimaginable horrors for most of his young life. He had just earned 5 shillings for washing someone's cow, and his friends wanted to walk five miles to the only black-and-white TV in town to watch something called the Olympics. Lomong had never heard of such a thing. When his crew finally arrived, he had to pay to see the tube. Price: 5 shillings...
...culture still rules in huge swaths of Yemen, where tribal traditions are strong and the judiciary is weak. Many "don't believe in the law, so they take revenge using their own arms," says Marwani. Blood feuds over anything from a pilfered cow to a perceived slight account for an estimated 1,200 revenge killings a year. Entire families become targets for retaliation, leaving parents scared to send children to school and farmers afraid to till their crops. Revenge killing is "a main obstacle for investment, for development and for democracy," says Noor Mohamed Baabad, Yemen's Deputy Minister...