Word: havoc
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...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...
...some of his own officers. Pakistani officials also argue that Musharraf doesn't exert full control over the wilder extremists roaming Kashmir, such as Jaish-e-Mohammad and Lashkar-e-Toiba, which are widely blamed for terrible civilian atrocities. Even without support from Pakistan, though, the militants could wreak havoc. One jihadi in Muzaffarabad says that the guerrillas have stashed huge supplies of weapons inside Indian-held Kashmir and that they could press on with their war long enough to provoke the Indians into breaking off peace talks...
...route on aerosol droplets has to be taken seriously, because one individual can infect many others. The major risk factor for acquiring the infection is breathing. In the absence of an effective drug or vaccine, we know that some infectious diseases similarly transmitted by the respiratory route have wreaked havoc: 20-40 million deaths from the influenza pandemic of 1918, the decimation of the population of Hawaii by the first introduction of measles and the lingering epidemic of tuberculosis that afflicts 8 million people annually now. Even with good vaccines, 36,000 people died in the U.S. last year from...
...American Heart Association. "But the surface has become eroded, exposing the material beneath the surface to the blood, which causes blood clots. And it turns out that the women who have this plaque erosion tend to be women who smoked." Those clots can travel through the bloodstream, wreaking havoc in the heart or the brain...
...these kind of tensions. "These [Turkish] forces are tied in to Turkoman groups in the city," says Col Mayville. The 173rd Airborne commanders suspect an amalgam of local Turkoman parties under the banner of the Iraqi Turkoman Front (ITF) were to be used by the covert team to wreak havoc. "In this first convoy was real aid. They'd do this two or three times then money or weapons would have started flowing in. We suspect their role was to strongarm or discipline the members of the ITF. What they're doing is crystallizing the ITF along the Turkish agenda...