Word: missionize
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...action would really make a difference? Western military intervention would indeed have made a crucial difference in Rwanda back in 1994. But it may not be the most important response this time even as the European Union is discussing sending more troops to shore up the United Nations peacekeeping mission there...
...civilians. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, has called for the European Union to send reinforcements. This might serve as good out-of-theater training exercise for the European troops but an extra 2,000 boots on the ground - even if the 27-member body could agree on the mission - would do little to address the root causes of the conflict. It would be a showpiece response and not a step toward a permanent solution. (See pictures of Congo on the break...
...importance of youth activism. “We’re in college. It’s our first real chance to get heard,” Mmopi says. “We need to remember that someone else made this freedom possible. Someone else invested in the mission and it paid...
Follow-up research will include the launch of Project Kepler, a first-of-its-kind NASA spacecraft mission that will look for Earth-sized planets located at similar distances from their respective stars—planets that might be friendly to life...
...behind-the-scenes process already under way in Washington: the reorganization of power on Capitol Hill. Three key elements to that process are still being sorted out: the final party-line composition of the Senate; the new GOP leadership in the House and how it reflects the new Republican mission and message; and the ability of House and Senate Democratic leaders to control crusading members who read Obama's win as a green light for a revolution. (Read "Who Will Be Obama's Pick for Treasury Secretary...