Word: habited
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...asked him whether he thought social work was now in style. "Indeed," he said, and so it is. In Iraq today, U.S. soldiers are building soccer fields and standing guard over girls' schools. This is being done in the name of an Administration whose members openly despised Clinton's habit of using the armed forces for missions short of war. ("We don't need to have the 82nd Airborne escorting kids to kindergarten," said Condoleezza Rice, now National Security Adviser, to the New York Times in 2000.) As for Liberia, all the key phrases last week--the need for clearly...
...most people, the function of coffee is simply to deliver a morning wake-up jolt. But a new coffee aims to turn this ritual into a more healthful habit. J.O.E. (Java of Evolution), by Jeremiah's Pick Coffee, is the first "functional" coffee to reach the market. Functional foods, or nutraceuticals, as they are sometimes called, are ordinary products (sodas, cereals, soups and even chewing gum) that have been fortified with extra vitamins, herbs or minerals. They are one of the fastest-growing areas of the food industry. From relative obscurity a decade ago these foods have gone...
...This was the third such crackdown in the Wenlou area in just over a month. Although the government is still embarrassed by the AIDS crisis in the province, it's unlikely the raids were ordered by Beijing. Local police "probably acted out of a long-ingrained habit of using any means possible to suppress information," says Hu Jia, a Beijing-based AIDS activist. That's not explanation enough for Cheng. "I have two small children," he says. "How am I supposed to make them understand why this is happening...
...relatively small force of well-trained and organized troops can quickly put to flight much larger rag-tag rebel armies. But political institutions in Liberia are weak, and in a region where war has become a way of life for so many young men, it may have a nasty habit of recurring. And as he's pressing the case for more action against al-Qaeda and regional warlords and demagogues (primarily Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe), President Bush is likely to hear growing calls from African leaders for help in the Congo, currently Africa's bloodiest and most intractable conflict...
...Because Africa's wars have a habit of spilling over borders and destabilizing entire regions, peacekeeping will be a hot topic in Administration's discussions over Liberia with Nigeria and in particular South Africa, which boasts the continent's most powerful military. The President will also be looking to greatly expand intelligence cooperation against al-Qaeda with his hosts in Senegal, Nigeria, Uganda and South Africa...