Word: impaction
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...hotly contested election in the nation's history has exposed more glaringly than ever the potentially violent social divide in Mexico. Addressing this split in a constructive way will be crucial to Calderón's ability to defuse the growing turbulence. And that, in turn, could have a beneficial impact on Washington's efforts to curb illegal immigration, which may not be successful until its southern neighbor builds more reliable government institutions and a more equitable economy...
...attacks may, however, have had a greater impact on social and political attitudes: They led 39% of respondents to view with suspicion "people who looked like they were of Middle Eastern origin," and they left 68% feeling more patriotic. Five years later, the number of respondents suspicious of people deemed to be from the Middle East had actually grown to 43%. Religious attitudes were mostly unchanged in the wake of the attacks - only 23% reported feeling more religious after the attacks, compared with 76% who answered in the negative - but five years later, 39% say their faith has intensified...
...started to realize that something was happening to our little shuck-shuck comedy. When we went to the GLAAD awards and people stood up and applauded, I started crying - I'm such a geek! It was a very emotional moment because at the end of it we saw the impact the show...
...part," says former polygamist Rowenna Erickson, who hails from the Kingston polygamy group, which is unrelated to Jeffs' and has its own lawsuits related to abuse. "There are a lot of groups that need to be addressed and this will ripple out and have a negative impact on those polygamy groups...
...mail messages. He wrote, for example, about his mother trying to burn him. Yes, it happened, and his other stories also held up. "Most of the time you can discount a false confession immediately," Lacy said. "In this case, because he believes it himself, he has emotional impact. During phone calls, the man is sobbing. He has the psychopathy and he has knowledge of the family." JonBenet's father, John Ramsey, read Karr's e-mail messages and told Lacy that Karr's description of Patsy's relatives and the JonBenet-Burke relationship were "dead...