Word: despairful
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...causing more than just culls and quarantines on the farms of Europe. The foot-and-mouth epidemic is also spreading fear and despair to farm families who are watching helplessly as their livestock - and livelihoods - literally go up in smoke. Even in countries and regions that are so far disease-free, the virus frightens farmers and changes the way they manage their flocks and fields. Here are personal stories of life - and death - on three European farms...
...stalemate in the peace process is making Palestinians like Dawish more anxious than ever about their future. The despair - and the potential for new conflict - may be greatest among the 300,000 refugees in Lebanon. Living often five to a room in 12 camps run by the United Nations, they watched as Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat conducted years of talks with Israel yet failed to win a solution to the refugee problem, which dates to fighting during Israel's 1948 war of independence. With Sharon's comeback, their hopes have been all but destroyed: whatever his promises to make peace...
...Sharon doesn't give in to despair. That is both the maddening and redeeming thing about her. Her yearning is real: "There is this whole spiritual existence out there and I can't get there." Her questions, however, are a cockeyed amalgam of Me-generation nostrums: "WHAT DO YOU NEED TO DO? HOW MANY BOOKS? HOW MANY JOURNEYS? WHAT ARE THE WORDS AND WHAT KIND OF FOOD? MACRO? MICRO? DO ROOTS FEED THE SOUL? CARROTS, TURNIPS, POTATOES? OR THE ANCIENT SONGS...
...which hundreds of perfectly healthy animals were incinerated last week. So far McInnes' herd has avoided infection, which means he still has a chance to unload the farm and "pack up and leave." But he can't move-his land has been quarantined, leaving him little to do but despair. "I wake up every morning wondering whether the wind has blown this devilish disease to my cows," he says. "You can only imagine the state of anguish...
...That mentality is in the process of getting crushed. We've moved from buying dips to just holding on. What comes next is "'Omigod, the stock market is risky,'" which is when people get out, says Nicholas Sargen, strategist at J.P. Morgan Private Client. That level of despair would probably signal a bottom. The theory is that when everyone has given up, there are no more sellers--only buyers...