Word: havoc
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That grisly image is just one indication of the havoc that 14 years of civil war have wrought in Liberia--and a sobering reminder of the challenges ahead for the Bush Administration, should it decide to send U.S. troops to Liberia as part of a 1,000-person, African-led peacekeeping force. Accompanying Bush on his five-nation trip to Africa last week, Secretary of State Colin Powell said any deployment of U.S. troops would be "very limited in duration and scope" and would coincide with the departure of Liberian President Charles Taylor, who Bush has demanded must give...
...then record of 4,698 shipborne arrivals. Some predict that by 2005 as many as 22,000 people annually will notch up a visit, all on hardy hulks like the Akademik Ioffe. Air travel is costly and almost impossible, due to Antarctica's furious climate, which plays more havoc with schedules than any who advisory could ever do. (The weather can delay flights for two weeks or longer, with no flights at all during the evil winter...
...York City landmark, but he had also tried to obtain equipment to help derail a train near the nation's capital. The feds had done more than nab a truck driver from Columbus, Ohio, who was leading what Ashcroft called "a secret double life," a man determined to wreak havoc right here in the U.S. They had turned one of Osama bin Laden's loyal foot soldiers into another breed entirely: double agent...
...recent haul of suspected terrorists in several Southeast Asian countries shows that authorities region-wide are getting serious about combating terror. But the arrests also indicate that extremists are adopting new tactics for causing fresh havoc?perhaps in response to the pressure being put on them. On June 13 a Thai national was busted in Bangkok not with conventional explosives but with a potential dirty-bomb ingredient, cesium 137. This followed a seizure in Bangladesh on May 30 of a stash of radioactive uranium. Now, an unheralded arrest reveals that terrorists may be experimenting with yet another deadly agent: poison...
...will be very good one day." The desserts, however--pineapple upside-down cake, fruit focaccia and tarte tatin--appeal to her in all their Rubenesque unsubtlety. And as she removes the last bit of buttery glazed apple from my plate, she insists that she never worries about what physical havoc her eating habits may cause. "I try to exercise, but I don't have any muscles. Every cell of my body is weeping and crying out." But working out and eating lite are simply an impossibility. "I'd rather move fast and wear a long jacket...