Word: detach
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Iraq - often dozens or more a day: "The craziest thing about the suicide bombings were the heads - how the head of the bomber often remained intact after the explosion. It was the result of some weird law that only a physicist could explain: the force of the blast would detach the bomber's head and throw it up and away, too fast for the blast to destroy it. So there it would be, the head, sitting on a pile of bricks or underneath a telephone pole...
...this semester. “It’s great to see that Harvard is making the shift towards combining theory with practice,” Ho says. “That has been something that has really enriched my experience. I feel you can’t really detach the two.” In 2007, Ho received an Artist Development Fellowship from the Office for the Arts (OFA) and Office of Career Services for intensive study of modern dance in New York. “[The fellowship] helped me see that this is something I really enjoy...
...which I had a child, and it was hard." Multitasking and an accelerated workflow present other challenges for the single-task-oriented male brain. And technological advances-from vibrating Blackberries to the addictive allure of high-speed Internet access at home-have made it all the harder to detach from work. Finally, when you consider the retrenchments and economic wipeouts that have set the temper of their working lives over the past decade-the financial crisis of 1997, the dotcom implosion of 2000, the downturn in the wake of SARS in 2003-it's easy to see why Asian...
...efforts to either detach Maliki from his key patron - Sadr, whose militia is in the thick of much of the sectarian violence - or else persuade Shi'ite rivals such as Abdulaziz al-Hakim to form a new coalition with the Sunnis and Kurds, excluding Maliki and Sadr, appear to be floundering. Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, the supreme Shi'ite spiritual leader whose expressed will neither Maliki nor Hakim can cross, has made clear that he will not tolerate any moves that break the unity of the ruling Shi'ite coalition that includes Maliki, Hakim and Sadr...
DICAPRIO: It takes probably 10 years to detach yourself from the filmmaking experience...