Word: neighborly
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...like if your house is on fire and your neighbor is against fire," Hagan said. "We're not the bad guys...
Ozal calls for an atlas and opens it to a map of the region. "Look where we are and what is going on around us," he says. As he traces the boundary of his country's giant neighbor to the north, Ozal reaches with his other hand into his pocket and pulls out a string of jet-black worry beads...
...deeper than mere appetite, and reveal, beneath the plump lubriciousness, regrets and surprising pleasures. Characters find themselves reproved by expectation, exiles on all fronts. At their best, his stories have the everyday magic of tall tales overheard at the local tea stall. It is no coincidence, perhaps, that the neighbor who runs away with the Irish fireman's wife in one yarn -- to an ashram in Pondicherry, no less -- goes by the name of Scheherazade...
...Somali dictator was in fact a client of both superpowers at different times. The Soviet Union supported his brand of "scientific socialism," then also lent its backing to his neighbor, Ethiopia, when it turned Marxist in 1977. Somalia was at war with Ethiopia over the disputed Ogaden province, so Siad Barre reversed his allegiance and appealed to the U.S. Washington was happy to provide him with $100 million in military and economic aid annually in the mid-1980s to counter Moscow...
Best Cosmic Comeback After appearing to be dead in space, Magellan got cranked up again and sent back the most spectacular pictures ever taken of Venus. They reveal Earth's nearest neighbor to be a caldron of recent volcanic activity -- not a promising spot for vacation homes...