Word: isolationism
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The tests were the same rigorous physical and psychological evaluations that the men of the Mercury program had undergone and that Tom Wolfe chronicled in The Right Stuff: Exercycle workouts, X rays, enemas, body-mass calculations, a sensory-isolation tank, even an enunciation test. The trials narrowed the field of...
For the traveling CEO getting ill or injured under International SOS protection, there are accredited hospitals and vetted doctors, personal isolation units ("for short ground- or air-ambulance trips") and preapproved golf courses to recuperate on ("because we also have a concierge service").
Despite the enthusiasm of Rumsfeld and the neo-conservative ideologues who first promoted the Iraq war for regime-change in Tehran, the Bush administration remains committed - at least for now - to a multilateral diplomatic strategy for dealing with Iran. But the debate in Washington, and allied capitals, is likely to...
In other cases, it's the government that has been shading the truth. By early April, a businesswoman who traveled to afflicted Guangdong province had brought the disease back to Shanghai and was admitted to the Contagious Disease Hospital. For weeks, she was Shanghai's only confirmed SARS case. Yet...
Hong Kong at present suffers from both a structural shift in the world's economic geography and a plague, the virulence and duration of which is poorly understood. Following the breakdown of socialist and communist ideology in China and the Soviet Union, and the end of policies of self-reliance...