Word: ridding
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...empowering women with the freedom to choose their own future, we can help Afghanistan become a symbol for people elsewhere who have yet to share in the opportunities provided when human rights include women's rights. In that way, America can do more than rid the world of an international terrorist network. It can promote the kind of values that will act like antibodies against the virus of evil that exists in too many hearts around the planet...
...everybody needs a new heart, although hundreds of thousands eventually may. Nor will an artificial heart rid the world of sickness or poverty or terror. But sometimes progress is measured one thin, retired grandfather at a time. For saving the life of Robert Tools and for changing our perception of what is possible, the AbioCor artificial heart is TIME's invention of the year...
...likely bin Laden hideouts, equipped with night-vision goggles and stun grenades, in case they had to creep inside the mountains, and laser pointers, in the hope that they could get warplanes to do the dirty, risky work. Bands of local Afghan fighters--whether driven by the desire to rid their country of bin Laden or win the $25 million bounty the U.S. had placed on his head--joined U.S. special-operations forces in the pursuit. Their orders were to shoot to kill. As one Army officer told Time, "We won't ask him if he wants to surrender...
...while the people of Afghanistan may be thrilled to be rid of the Taliban, they can be forgiven for feeling more than a little nervous over what comes next...
Will it be by war? In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, there was a hope that police work might be able to rid the world of al-Qaeda and its associates. But the more we know of bin Laden's group, the less that seems likely, and not just because its operatives are ruthlessly fanatic...