Word: fallen
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Kayaking back to our boat, we sailed until sunset, dropped anchor in a secluded cove and stretched out on deck to watch meteors flash across the night sky. Out in the bay, lights from squid fishers bobbed on the horizon like fallen stars. Behind us, moonlit rock giants towered over the still waters and silver beaches in their timeless repose. In the dark silence, Ha Long Bay was holding onto its beauty...
...same period. In France, the number of divorces has increased fourfold since 1965, while the number of adults deciding to opt out of marriage altogether has risen by 12% since the early 1980s. In Italy, the number of divorces has increased by 30% since 1990, and fertility rates have fallen to just 1.2 children per woman - down from 1.7 children per woman more than 20 years ago and 2.4 in 1960. In the Netherlands, 23% of children are born out of wedlock. And in the Eastern bloc, out-of-wedlock births in Poland have almost doubled in the past...
...time, we will clear away dust and rubble, and rebuild our fallen structures of concrete and steel. But to honor the men and women whose lives will never be rebuilt, it is the duty of the American people to have courage, and to make the fight against terror a part of our national will...
While the Internet is good to hobbyists like Carvalho, commercial Web radio has fallen upon draconian times. SORRY YOU MISSED US! reads the Web page where the Net radio source iCAST once stood. Like Imagine Radio (subsumed by Sonicnet, which was bought by MTV's interactive division) and Launch.com (being acquired by Yahoo!), it's one of the many Internet radio sources that have gone out of business or been taken over by large corporations in the past several months...
...citizens of peaceful countries would feel no more secure. As so many world leaders have noted, this week’s attack was not merely an act of aggression against the United States, but against the free world. Once again, the duty to defend these freedoms has fallen squarely on our shoulders...