Word: grim
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...trying to get both sides focused on the Bush administration's long-term vision of two states living peacefully side by side even as he warns that cease-fire prospects are grim, he may be coaxing all the participants towards the realization that band-aids won't suffice in a crisis that may demand surgical separation...
...hardened Palestinian militant is coaxing a traumatized teenager into becoming a human bomb. The recruiter is offering the glory of martyrdom in service of his suffering people. What alternative future does that teenager see? The frightening reality is that for much of Palestinian society the future looks so grim as to give suicide bombing a ghoulish appeal. And that's why restarting a process toward separating Palestinian society from Israeli occupation by creating a viable Palestinian state is a matter of considerable urgency. Both sides currently believe they're fighting for their very national survival, and both sides see that...
...would it begin? In one grim scenario, it would start with Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, who is in the most exposed position of all. His controlled media have long been replete with fervent anti-Israeli propaganda in a deliberate attempt to deflect attention from corruption and mismanagement at home. Endless television replays of the most brutal scenes of the Israeli occupation have hammered home the message that Egypt's most urgent concern is the plight of the Palestinians. At the same time, what is still a military-based regime justifies large expenditures on the armed forces amid extreme poverty...
...long for some critics. Says Twila Brase, president of the Citizens' Council on Health Care: "You'll inevitably sweep up healthy people. And what happens when they refuse to be held? You're going to have Kent State all over again." The alternative, though, may be just as grim. In Maine, warns deputy attorney general Linda Pistner, there's nothing to stop someone with smallpox from walking out of the hospital. "Without this tool," she asks, "how else can we minimize the loss of life...
...problem, indeed, is a grim one: 36 million people are infected with HIV/AIDS worldwide. In the U.S., about 900,000 carry the disease. The health and education committee hasn't had a hearing on the epidemic since the late 1980s. Kennedy wants the U.S. government to pony up more money for treatment and training to fight HIV/AIDS worldwide. Says the senator: "Elton John gives visibility to the threat this disease poses...