Word: oddness
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...jungle land in southern and northeastern India and given training to become farmers. Later, some received subsidies to help market traditional handicrafts. But the vast majority of migrants settled in Dharamsala along with the Dalai Lama. The local economy was unable to absorb them. A mere lucky few found odd jobs or set up business in roadside stalls...
...This was transpacific yin and yang, and it all worked fine - until it stopped working almost entirely, late last year. Now both economies are flailing while leaders try to mitigate the worst effects of a frightening global recession. And the odd thing is, the two countries' salvage efforts are pretty much polar opposites as well. (See pictures of China's electronic-waste village...
...Unfortunately, even with a promising line-up and an abundance of talent, the idol fails to deliver. Saddler appears to be disoriented by the myriad directions his culture has taken, and instead of connecting these concepts, “The Bridge” ultimately amounts to an odd amalgamation of garbled influences and mediocre songs...
Just this week, a professor told everyone in a fairly large class that we are already in the 99.9th percentile of people in the world who understand our specific area of content. Disregarding the notion of there being any validity in this odd quantification of our studies, or the fact that we’re less than a month into the semester, peddling notions of our superiority in this way can only amplify the belief that we are smarter than anyone lacking the Harvard name...
...Pakistan often conclude that the only thing that unites this discordant nation of tribes, ethnicities, cultures and languages is religion. In 1947 the nation was born as an Islamic state, a refuge for a persecuted minority fleeing the Hindu dominance of India, newly liberated from colonial rule. Yet 60-odd years later, even as contraband Johnny Walker is liberally poured into the glasses of those who can afford it, Shari'a, or Islamic law, is declared in a district not far from the capital as a concession to the Taliban. Islam no longer unites; it divides. In its place rises...