Word: footing
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...Such foot-dragging is dangerous for Indonesia and the rest of the world. As the WHO outlined in its annual World Health Report, released Thursday, the globe has grown so interconnected that open international cooperation is the only way to respond to infectious disease threats like avian flu. Diseases don't respect boundaries - from Bali, bird flu could hop a direct international flight to almost any country in Asia, and then the world. Avian flu has fallen out of the headlines, but that doesn't mean the disease has been eliminated, or the threat of a pandemic has disappeared...
Motala had her foot blown off by a land mine; Fuji lost most of her tail to a mysterious disease; Stumpy crippled her leg in an unknown injury in the wild. Only a few years ago, a wounded elephant, dolphin and kangaroo like these would not have had much hope. Under the rough rules of the wild, they would have quickly died of predation, infection or starvation. Compassionate humans who intervened might have been able to make the animals more comfortable but never could have made them whole...
When Motala the elephant stepped on a land mine eight years ago in Thailand, her prospects were bleak. Veterinarians were forced to amputate what was left of her mangled foot and part of her leg. The operation saved her life but left her hobbling around on only three legs for the better part of six years. Finally, in 2005 surgeons at the Friends of the Asian Elephant Hospital in Lampang, Thailand, designed a 22-lb. (10 kg) shoelike prosthetic foot that is little more than a canvas sack filled with sawdust and held in place by a giant sling...
...balance. (Wal-Mart's debit card, on the other hand, does not earn interest.) With such nimble competitors, banks will have to move faster than ever to win over the millions of people who may soon discover that they can get all the bank they need without ever setting foot...
...making their way across his neck and chin, he launched into his four-point plan on how to solve the immigration problem, which includes punishing employers for hiring illegal immigrants and enforcing the borders - though not with the help of a fence. "I believe if you build a 12-foot fence you'll get an awful lot of 13-foot ladders," he said...