Word: destructionism
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The hills are burning along highway 14. Columns of smoke dot the rolling horizon, and charred tree stumps smolder on the slopes. It may look like a vision of destruction, but Nguyen Van Quyen sees riches rising from the ashes. He's looking not at the felled trees, but at...
(3 of 3) McConnell accepted defeat and warned his colleagues what the new world might look like. "This is mutual assured destruction of the political parties," he said. "There won't be one penny less spent on politics it just won't be spent by the parties." Instead, he predicted...
The Taliban government claimed it had completed the destruction of two giant statues of Buddha and closed the BBC's Afghanistan office because of the organization's coverage of the action. Photographs confirmed that a third Buddha statue had been demolished, but authorities denied access to the site of the...
The U.S. move has been met with general approval at home and--surprisingly--in Europe as well. Foot-and-mouth has already led to the slaughter and incineration of 180,000 pigs, sheep and cows in Britain, with 100,000 more marked for destruction. On the day that the U.S...
Pryor says he tried to save everything. But he recalls colleagues who threw away--even burned--the bulk of their records, a policy he compares to the Taliban's destruction of ancient Afghan statues.