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...promise (and perils) of a truly global capitalist economy and mounting geopolitical uncertainty. It seemed safe to assume, a decade ago, that the end of a conflict between two powers whose combined nuclear arsenals could destroy the planet 300 times over would leave the world a safer place. Instead, today's world is more dangerous than ever. The very power in those nuclear arsenals - once they confronted the reality of using them during the Cuban missile crisis of 1962 - created an overriding incentive to avoid a direct confrontation at all costs, and to manage their own rivalry and the world...
Though she did not know the names of the candidates seeking her vote, Ozawa hopes that the next congressman will devote considerable attention to making her neighborhood safer...
...ride from the library to my temporary residence in the safer, north section of Bogotá takes about 45 minutes. On the radio, a news anchor announces that the Colombian soccer team has advanced into the semifinals versus an upstart Honduras squad in the Cup of Peace, the tournament’s nickname...
...Safer section? Peace? I haven’t watched the news much, and in two weeks of research on the nation’s history, I’ve forgotten that the country, always friendly and fun for me, is currently in bad shape...
Johnson just bought a new Mercedes. "Oh, I can see it on their faces," he says of his co-workers. "How is a black guy driving that car? You know that car is safer from getting 'accidentally' dented if I park in the 'ghetto' Taft High School lot than if I park on the police lot? We're constantly being racially profiled by our white colleagues. So of course they're doing it on the street...