Word: desertion
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...slaves of the local prisons, plundering anything worth saving and killing anyone who interfered. "What a wretched gamble is the game of human life!" wrote the French philosopher Voltaire, overwhelmed by the horror of it all. "Why could it not have burst forth in the midst of an uninhabited desert? Why is Lisbon engulfed while Paris, no less wicked, dances...
...region is increasing. For while temblors on secondary faults relieve stress locally, they often put greater strain on larger faults nearby. Of particular concern is the southern part of the San Andreas, which in 1992 was greatly perturbed by a major, 7.3 quake centered in the Mojave Desert town of Landers...
Sure, a few students banded together to form SAWME (Students Against War in the Middle East). A few others created a group called SUDS (Students United for Desert Storm). Other than the use of particularly inane acronyms, what these groups had in common was their size: small. Most students didn't go out for the protests; they stayed home and watched the TV news. It wasn't that they didn't care. They just didn't have opinions...
Tabin suggested using the names of different species of hedgehogs. His lab had called the previous three genes isolated from this family Indian hedgehog, moonrat hedgehog and desert hedgehog, for the gene's ability, when mutated, to give fruit flies the bristly appearance of a hedgehog...
...spiritual pilgrim as well, exploring psychic phenomena the scientist within him assessed carefully but many times failed to discredit. He says he bent spoons, visited a past gladiatorial life in Rome, had his aura fluffed as you would a poodle. Once, he found himself in the desert conversing with a cactus, which he insulted, only to feel contrite...