Word: lures
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...group of students consistently resists the lure of inebriation--members of religious organizations abstain at twice the levels of all students, and less than 30 percent report binging...
...from New Orleans, where he had studied forestry at Louisiana State University. Valori came from a family in Iowa filled with evangelical zeal: one sister was spreading the gospel in materialistic Hong Kong, another in war-ravaged Bosnia. But China's 1.3 billion souls have always been a big lure for evangelists, and the Morrisons eventually set up a home in Wuhan, a river-port city with a long missionary tradition. Bruce taught English at a local institute and Valori home-schooled the brood. During the week, they roamed the campus of the Hubei Industrial Institute, where six blond, Chinese...
...Palestinian gunmen in the West Bank town of Tulkarem. The men had gone to Tulkarem with an Arab friend to buy pottery there; police first detained and then released the friend, who is an Israeli citizen, after deciding that he had not been part of a plan to lure the men to their deaths. By week?s end, the talks had started again, despite the killing of another Israeli on the edge of Jerusalem Thursday night...
...allegedly helping Russian oligarchs plunder their country's resources. "He considers himself a citizen of the world, inconvenienced by the laws of nations," says Howard Safir, the former New York City police commissioner who, as head of operations for the U.S. Marshals Service in the '80s, tried unsuccessfully to lure Rich to a country that would deport...
...Paige concedes that the dropout rate in Houston is "undesirable" but doesn't blame it on testing. "Most of it had nothing to do with the school-based factors," he says. "We were improving those rapidly." Paige instead faults societal factors such as teen pregnancy and the lure of employment, even for dropouts, in a strong local economy...