Word: defenselessness
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...correct one. In fact, the piece may allude to an ancient Chinese legend about a tigress adopting a human baby. The early bronze workers certainly knew how to convey animal brutality when they wanted to, as illustrated in two small ornaments nearby that depict fierce tigers attacking defenseless deer. The museum also features an exceptional collection of tomb figures, or mingqi, especially from the Han dynasty (206 B.C. to 220 A.D.). The Han believed that humans have both a physical life (po) and a spiritual one (hun), and that at death the two go their separate ways. While the spirit...
...complete looks like an act of God, but residents here know that the truth is more complicated. For decades the oil-rig roughnecks and menhaden fishermen who have made their living on this fragile shore have seen drilling and dredging kill off the surrounding marshes and forests, leaving them defenseless against the rising waters. "Our parish was not only destroyed by nature," says Benny Rousselle, Plaquemines Parish president. "It was destroyed...
...correct one. In fact, the piece may allude to an ancient Chinese legend about a tigress adopting a human baby. The early bronze workers certainly knew how to convey animal brutality when they wanted to, as illustrated in two small ornaments nearby that depict fierce tigers attacking defenseless deer...
...reasons that many of us at The Crimson became journalists, because we wanted to stand up for often defenseless faculty-types who weren’t very politically sophisticated and who were under a huge public spotlight, rightly and wrongly,” says Rosenthal...
...election, attacks by insurgent groups have spiked over the past two weeks, coinciding with the formation of a new government. Most of the recent wave of attacks, which have already killed nearly 300 people since early May, are targeted at Iraqi police and security services. But as always, ordinary, defenseless civilians are caught in the middle. In Baghdad just driving to work is a deadly daily game of Russian roulette...