Word: existance
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...This tension stems mainly from the fact that China prefers North Korea to exist, even in its impoverished and infuriating current form, as opposed to what it sees as the other possibility: a unified Korean peninsula aligned with the U.S. Klingner says Beijing has for years feared a North Korean implosion, in the manner of the former East Germany's, because it would come with costs both economic (refugees crossing the Chinese border) and diplomatic (the loss of a buffer state in a region that, though stable, is inhabited by countries that really don't like one another much...
...talk of the war in Sarajevo today, religious leaders trace Bosnia's Islamic revival directly to the horrors people witnessed in the 1990s, when they were children. "This generation grew up overnight," says the country's Grand Mufti, Mustafa Efendi Ceric. "We had an entire generation asking, 'Does God exist?' And now we have a generation that is very religious." Husic and her friends bear that out. As young girls, they watched their hometown of Mostar become ripped apart as lifelong neighbors turned against each other in a spiral of ethnic enmity; two of the four women lost their fathers...
...downtown Washington, the nearly 1,700-acre area is home to fortresses of unfriendly buildings surrounded by oceans of parking lots, as well as single-story car dealerships, strip malls, fast-food joints, highways and a big toll road. Pedestrians are personae non gratae here. What few sidewalks exist often abruptly...
There are at least a few in every college dorm: students who seem to exist in their own time zone, in bed hours before everyone else and awake again at daybreak, rested and prepared for the morning's first lecture...
...same time, Israelis must acknowledge that just as Israel's right to exist cannot be denied, neither can Palestine's. The United States does not accept the legitimacy of continued Israeli settlements. This construction violates previous agreements and undermines efforts to achieve peace. It is time for these settlements to stop...