Word: rage
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Intimidation was pervasive during the initial hand-wringing period. What have we done to inspire such rage? What can we do? Sure, we can strike back, but will that not just make the enemy even more angry and determined and fanatical? How can you defeat an enemy who thinks he's on a mission from...
Proteomics is all the rage in Europe as well. The British biotech Oxford GlycoSciences announced this month that it had filed for patents on 4,000 proteins. It has $280 million in cash reserves and is awaiting U.S. and European approval of a drug for Gaucher disease, a rare inherited disorder...
...case that first focused national attention on the "road rage" phenomenon, Brinkema sentenced Narkey Keval Terry to a whopping 10 years, more than 3 times the recommended sentence, for his role in a 1996 highway showdown on the George Washington Memorial Parkway that killed three drivers. That sentence, for involuntary manslaughter, was also overturned, but the appeals court left open the possibility that Brinkema could find other grounds for such a harsh term. Which...
...become personalized. Bin Laden was a relative nobody in the Islamic world in the summer of 1998 when his men bombed two U.S. embassies in East Africa. And it wasn't necessarily the attacks themselves that made him the international center of gravity for Islamist anti-American rage - it was the U.S. response, which was to name Osama bin Laden as the most dangerous man in the world and fire off a slew of cruise missiles onto two continents in a vain, almost panicky attempt to eliminate him and destroy his assets. Radical Islamists everywhere who might once have raised...
...study in contrasts, Mohammad Ichsan, deputy commander of Laskar Jihad's forces in Sulawesi, exudes a high-energy rage that reverberates in his hoarse voice, as he leans forward on the edge of a chair in the group's headquarters, a small house at the end of a narrow alley in Poso. Ichsan also denies that his forces are on the offensive. The town, a once thriving fishing port famous for its carving of ebony wood harvested from nearby forests, is now shuttered and virtually deserted but for Laskar fighters. Even police and army troops stay close to their base...