Word: patchwork
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...Heaven of Mercury is a tale of luckless love. This first novel by Brad Watson, former Briggs-Copeland Lecturer on English and American Literature and Languagea at Harvard, traces the lives of Finus Bates and Birdie Wells, prominent residents of an imagined Southern city called Mercury. Watson creates a patchwork of anecdotes narrated by many colorful characters in his attempt to knit together the convergent histories of these two protagonists...
...solution, Israeli government actions undermine it. Since signing the Oslo accord of 1993, the Israeli settlement population has doubled, displacing Palestinians and expropriating their land and water sources. A network of roads for the exclusive use of Israelis now connects the settlements, separating the remaining Palestinian territory into a patchwork of isolated enclaves. With the vast military and economic support of the United States, these actions place Israel on a course of permanent occupation. We believe this occupation is not only unjust and injurious to the Palestinians but also very harmful to Israel. Much of the danger that Israel...
Today, Nagasaki offers a respite for travelers exhausted by Tokyo's frenetic chaos. The city is located on Kyushu, Japan's pristine southernmost island where snow-capped volcanoes punctuate patchwork landscapes of vegetable farms. Surrounding waters contain more than 500 small islands. Even the airport is located on an island, albeit one barely larger than the runway...
...first glimpse of her roots had come two days earlier. Our passenger plane from Thailand dropped through a thick layer of cloud to reveal steep, wrinkled peaks flanking a jade patchwork of paddies. As we whizzed over the treetops to land outside the main town of Jinghong?or in Dai Lue, Chiang Rung, "the city of the dawn"?what looked like dozens of Pizza Huts peeped from the verdure. This was the unique architecture of the Dai?their signature, high-canted roofs perched atop thick teak pillars...
...European law as the "last frontier" of compromise between data protection and national security. Phone and Internet companies are also unsettled. "As a global company, we would prefer a harmonized approach," says Richard Purcell, Microsoft's director of corporate privacy, while the E.U. directive "will likely create a patchwork of laws." For example, he says, data might need to be retained for anywhere from 90 days - the usual period for billing purposes - to seven years. Press-freedom groups, whose interests include the protection of news sources, are concerned as well. Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières urges telecom...