Word: elementally
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...group of U.S. Marines conducting war games on a Kuwaiti island, killing one Marine and badly injuring another. Kuwait's interior minister later said one of the two extremists, who were killed when the Marines returned fire, had sworn allegiance to Osama bin Laden. Kuwait is a critical element of U.S. plans for a possible invasion of Iraq. The oil-rich emirate is likely to be the main springboard for any land invasion. More than 15,000 U.S. troops are already stationed here, training in the bleak desert south of the Iraqi border...
...would be no surprise to hear such sentiments from enraged street protestors, about to torch an American flag. On the 'Arab street,' the Iraqi dictator has always been able to count on the support of the lumpen element - the ill-informed, reflexively anti-Israel and anti-American mob that sees in Saddam something akin to a working class hero, his very survival a slap in the face of the hated United States...
...Bush administration, the loss of this crucial constituency compromises any chances of influencing Arab opinion, a crucial element of any campaign in Iraq. It complicates post-war scenarios, too: If Saddam is the Good Guy, then no matter what the outcome of the war, America can only be the Bad Guy. And of course, it gives the dictator a tool his American adversary doesn't have in the Arab world: a weapon of mass adulation...
Jerri Manthey is no stranger to hostile environments. On Survivor 2: The Australian Outback, she encountered extreme heat, extreme eating challenges and extreme backstabbing. But it is in her second reality go-around, on the WB's The Surreal Life, that she really finds herself out of her element: she is the only nonactor or nonmusician in a group of seven former celebrities picked to share a mansion for 10 days. "None of us know who she is," says housemate and former teen idol Corey Feldman in the debut episode. "She's not part of our society." "I felt like...
Researchers are finding that antipsychotics can help alleviate paranoid, schizoid and schizotypal symptoms. A variety of drugs--including mood stabilizers, such as lithium and Depakote; anticonvulsants like Tegretol; and SSRIs--may help control the impulsive element of the dramatic disorders. And while antidepressant and antianxiety medications do little to rejigger something as fundamental as personality, doctors find that if they prescribe the drugs to relieve the stress that comes with living so disordered a life, some motivated patients may then take on the harder work of talk therapy...