Word: refugee
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In the aftermath of that tragedy, federal law was rewritten to require miners to have wireless communication systems, and to provide them with respirators containing more than the one hour of oxygen the Sago miners had. But the law hasn't gone into effect yet, and it wouldn't have...
Midsummer is supposed to be a quiet time in sports--the lazy hammock suspended between the end of basketball and the start of football. In baseball the pennant races are still at a gentle trot, supporting the fans' antique dream of sport as a refuge from front-page reality.
In my California hometown, the night sky stretches on forever, full of stars, pushing all of us homeward. Taking refuge from the lowering darkness, we see each other with grateful eyes, reconnecting after a long day away from home. When I come back to my Brooklyn apartment, the nighttime drones...
Numbers 35:11: "...then you shall select cities to be cities of refuge for you, that the manslayer who kills any person without intent may flee there." Activists cite this as a kind of ancient model for their movement. Various verses in the Old Testament describe "cities of refuge," where...
"They should be punished for what they did," Akuma says. But punishment may be a fungible term. For Akuma, like other suffering Acholi people, wants a quiet conclusion to the rebellion so that she and thousands of other northern Ugandans who took refuge in filthy, desolate camps for displaced people...