Word: quiets
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...bags to stock a Wal-Mart. Night after night, they cut fences intended to hold in cattle and horses. Cows that eat the bags must often be killed because the plastic becomes lodged between the first and second stomachs. The immigrants steal vehicles and saddles. They poison dogs to quiet them. The illegal traffic is so heavy that some ranchers, because of the disruptions and noise, get very little sleep at night...
...past few weeks Monrovia had turned relatively quiet, as ECOMOG troops set up checkpoints to keep the Johnson and Taylor factions apart. But death hovers over the city. Virtually no food shipments have arrived since rebel forces first entered Monrovia in July, and hunger is taking lives every day. The starving look as if they are sleeping, curled up on the sidewalks, but their eyes are open; they simply lack the strength to stand. Sam, 8, who approached me with his brother John, 11, pleaded, "Missy, we haven't eaten in three days." I took them to the flat where...
...efforts for years, but that is beginning to change--and some of the push is coming from Beijing. For most of the recent Montreal climate conference, the U.S. resisted any serious discussion of what should be done after Kyoto expires. But several major developing countries, including China as a quiet but present force, supported further talks and helped break down U.S. opposition. "At the moment, China seems more interested in engaging on this issue internationally than the U.S. does," says Elliot Diringer, director of international strategies for the Pew Center on Global Climate Change...
Despite the tumultuous start to our journey, we were elated to finally be in the holy land. Palestine is breathtaking. The rolling green hills and olive trees seemed to quiet the land’s many years of suffering...
...still held for months, and Fox was still brutalized and executed. With ever more chilling surety, there is barely any quarter being given in this war. Every foreigner breathed a gentle sigh upon news of their rescue, paused darkly over the fate of Tom Fox, and held one more quiet thought for American journalist Jill Carroll, 28, still out there. Somewhere. Here, even high points come with jagged edges...