Word: distractedness
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) Camouflaged by its very familiarity, the water problem has crept up on a world distracted by fears of global warming and other emergent environmental threats. Yet water could be the first resource that puts a limit on human population and economic growth. Shortfalls of water will mean shortfalls of food...
Performers at theme parks learn things never taught in a classroom: how to dance without tripping over a microphone cord, how to improvise when a prop disappears or scenery just won't move, how to entice an audience distracted by weather or a crying child or a plateful of food...
A thin young man with the look of an unslept jailbird -- he is wanted by the army, like his best friend who was killed just now -- stops for a second, his body's engine racing, in front of a shop with a mannequin in its window dressed in a stately...
When the issue of German unification burst out of nowhere late last year, it initially distracted attention and drained political energy from 1992 and greater European integration. As the world faces up to the nuclear corollary of the German question, Europeans may realize they have more incentive than ever to...
Mandela's style is leadership by example, and he has not found it easy to take over day-to-day control of the A.N.C. He has had to carry out his onerous public duties while being distracted by a family crisis. Last month the reputation of his controversial wife Winnie...