Word: disruption
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...Grin, Just Bear It Few people are happy with their passport photos, and following guidance from the U.K. Passport Service (UKPS), Britons won't be allowed to look happy in them either. The UKPS has banned photos showing passport applicants smiling. Apparently a glimpse of teeth will disrupt the machinery used to read new biometric ePassports to be introduced in 2005. Don't say cheese...
...Kakadu - and it's certainly much bigger than anything in the U.S. So globally, this is a problem." Archer often runs up against the view that it doesn't much matter if humans exterminate up to 70% of all species during the next few hundred years, or if we disrupt ecosystems, because technology will keep us alive. "But can we work," Archer wonders, "in an ecosystem in which the resources we may require are winking in and winking out, unpredictably and out of our control? Technology may not be able to help enough to prevent this catastrophe from consuming...
...Dutch coxswain, looking to disrupt the Crimson’s momentum and create an uneven surface, steered his rowers into Harvard’s lane on more than occasion, each time prompting a warning from race officials...
...public disapproval, he fired General Douglas MacArthur. Truman showed courage and decisiveness when confronted with seemingly impossible situations. The whys and hows of the quagmire in Iraq would not faze him. He would either order the troops home or unleash the full might of the military on those who disrupt our efforts in Iraq. Moreover, he would take full responsibility for the decision. William H. Hedrick Albany...
...public disapproval, he fired General Douglas MacArthur. Truman showed courage and decisiveness when confronted with seemingly impossible situations. The whys and hows of the quagmire in Iraq would not faze him. He would either order the troops home or unleash the full might of the military on those who disrupt our efforts in Iraq. Moreover, he would take full responsibility for the decision. WILLIAM H. HEDRICK Albany...