Word: doorstep
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Could the next chapter of our national nightmare be a nuclear one? How hard would it be for operatives of Osama bin Laden to deliver a "suitcase nuke" to our doorstep...
...Naturalization Service, the federal agency charged with screening those who would cross our borders, "has essentially evolved into a welcoming agency," says Jim Dorcy, a 30-year INS veteran who is now a consultant with the Federation for American Immigration Reform. "We treat the people who come to our doorstep as customers and look for some way to let them in," he says...
...Beatles in its trumpet-lead optimism. Mess as a whole is often as polite and nearly as self-effacing as its title: It is sometimes a little hard to imagine the earnest, woeful voice that sings, “If I ever look up to find you on my doorstep / I’d die,” funking out and shaking his thang as he did with Chucklehead (maybe if he sang, “you’ll die…”). But if this is nice-guy music in the best tradition of Coldplay...
TIME.com: Israeli forces have entered Bethlehem following new firing on nearby Gilo. That puts them right on your doorstep...
...foreign correspondent for the Times, and then to Vietnam. I had to go very, very far away to find the tensions between different cultures and civilizations, between the Third World and the First World. And now, late in my life, it’s coming to our doorstep. Do I think we should be more interventionist right now? I think we’re utterly absorbed with the issue of security and I think that’s how it should be. Because, in effect, if we do not meet this threat, then not only are we vulnerable...