Word: mayhemic
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...buffalo off the side of a cliff and then reap the rewards at the bottom of the fall: "The Blackfoot term for a buffalo jump is pishkun, which translates roughly to 'deep blood kettle' ... Anyone whose sensitivities are disturbed by modern slaughterhouse practices would be utterly repulsed by the mayhem at the foot of a buffalo jump. In the fall, buffalo suffered compound fractures. Splintered femurs were driven far enough into bodies to puncture stomachs and spill contents. Buffalo landed on other buffalo. Their horns and hooves ripped into each other's hides and flesh. The backs of the buffalo...
...discovery. At a presentation on the election at the independent think-tank, the Ghana Centre for Democratic Development, earlier this year, the political analyst and former director of the country's Narcotic Control Board, K. B. Quantson, warned: "Ghana should not delude itself that it is living well above mayhem and the deadly clashes that have unfortunately plagued Liberia, Cote d'Ivoire and Kenya." The assumption that Ghana's stability will continue is "dangerous," he added, arguing that the country's relative calm is threatened by bad governance, opportunism, intolerance, impunity and corruption...
...evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists - or at least most of them - came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak their mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate. Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 as a homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, and its relations with India since have been bedeviled by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state. Almost as many Muslims have remained in India as live in Pakistan, but Pakistan...
...evidence slowly mounts that the terrorists--at least most of them--came across the Arabian Sea from Pakistan to wreak mayhem on Mumbai, the geopolitical reverberations of the carnage are beginning to resonate. Pakistan was hacked off the stooped shoulders of India by the departing British in 1947 to be a homeland for the subcontinent's Muslims, and its relations with India have since been bedeviled by a festering dispute over the divided territory of Kashmir, India's only Muslim-majority state. Almost as many Muslims have remained in India as live in Pakistan, but Pakistan has had the worst...
...from the mini bar, with no official information reaching them. Among the first batch of released hostages was Kareem Sharif, an American-Canadian citizen, looking shaken but relieved. He said he'd been in the spa when the terrorists came in at 10:30 on Wednesday night and unleashed mayhem. He says they fired indiscriminately, and people took shelter wherever they could. David Jacobs, an Australian, said it wasn't the lack of food and water that worried him most; it was the fire raging right outside his hotel room as the commandos moved closer...