Word: nascent
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...fall of 2003, just two years after the 9/11 attacks, doubts had begun to creep back in. The most striking manifestation of American miscalculation was the refusal of Iraqis to peacefully embrace the nascent democracy created for them by U.S. arms. Far from abating, violence in Iraq increased over time. Part of the problem was the insufficiency of U.S. boots on the ground. General Eric Shinseki turned out to have been right that "something on the order of several hundred thousand soldiers" would be needed to stabilize post-Saddam Iraq. Trying to do the job with around 135,000--roughly...
When the Dark Ages began, the cosmos was a formless sea of particles; by the time it ended, just a couple hundred million years later, the universe was alight with young stars gathered into nascent galaxies. It was during the Dark Ages that the chemical elements we know so well--carbon, oxygen, nitrogen and most of the rest--were first forged out of primordial hydrogen and helium. And it was during this time that the great structures of the modern universe--superclusters of thousands of galaxies stretching across millions of light-years--began to assemble...
...Alaa Mahmoud, 42, is Iraqi, from the notorious Haifa Street in Baghdad; he's one of about 20,000 Iraqis in Lebanon. He fled the nascent civil war in Baghdad in 2004, and now he is sick, he says, with an infection of his hip. He has no medicine and can't work at his job as a janitor anymore. As his eyes tear up, he pleads with me to call his sister in Baghdad to tell her he is alive. At this point, he breaks down and cries...
...three new additions to the APO, which is headed by Associate Dean of Advising Monique Rinere. In a bout of administrative shuffling, former Assistant Dean of Freshmen James N. Mancall and former Assistant Dean of Academic Advising Inge-Lise Ameer will both become assistant deans of advising within the nascent APO. And Brooks Lambert-Sluder ’05, a former curriculum review project associate, will serve as the manager of the Peer Advising Fellow Program. During the spring, all three appointees were involved with the APO’s initial efforts to revamp freshman advising. They attended weekly meetings...
...vote marked Mexico’s first presidential election since 2000, when Vicente Fox broke the Institutional Revolutionary Party’s (PRI) 70-year stranglehold on the nation’s politics. The race was a key moment in Mexican history, as the nation’s still-nascent electoral institutions presided over an election decided by less than one half of one percent of the vote...