Word: patterning
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...Israeli-Palestinian conflict has lurched into its most dangerous crisis since the onset of the intifada last year. But the danger lies less in the escalation of what remains a familiar pattern of violence, than in the fact that the none of the key players - the government of Ariel Sharon, the Palestinian leadership and the Bush administration - appears to have a clear strategy, and all three are deeply divided over how to proceed...
...medical establishment has been trying for years to change that pattern, trying to find ways to encourage donation, debating the ethical quandaries inherent in such a delicate, and personal, choice. Monday, a committee appointed by the department of Health and Human Services began compiling a list of possible solutions to the organ availability dilemma. Each of the suggestions has circulated in ethicists? circles for years; the most controversial of the proposals would provide a small monetary compensation to the survivors of organ donors. The consensus could be there, at least in the medical community: In a statement made...
...curry-flavored instant noodles on a street corner, are a couple of 17-year-olds who met on a weeklong pursuit of their favorite boy band, Glay clones called Due le Quartz. Parked nearby are their miniature suitcases, one a faux Burberry, the other girlishly pink with a strawberry pattern. Michiko has taken off from her suburban Tokyo home before, but this is a first for Yuko, who rode the rails in from northern Niigata prefecture. "My parents said no, so I just packed a bag and left," she says. (Like most of the two dozen runaways TIME spoke...
...much of that vision has been lost can be seen in Mazar-i-Sharif. When the Taliban abandoned Mazar and retreated to the south, they set the pattern for the ground war; so too, the way in which Mazar emerges from Taliban rule is a good indicator of how Afghanistan will fare at peace...
...Scanning: Amsterdam's Schipol airport has installed an "automated border crossing" system using eye scanners made by American firm Iridian Technologies and Dutch company Joh. Enschede Security Solutions. These "biometric" tools can identify an individual by the unique pattern of his or her iris...