Word: scatteredness
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But Mandela and Jiang remind us of a simple fact: When we do grow old, there will indeed be thousands of people scattered around the world who will have met us, whose lives we will have touched, for whom our own lives have been either a blessing or a curse...
Gunesekera's first novel, Reef, became a Booker Prize finalist in 1994, thanks to its meticulous evocation of the marketing of paradise (symbolized by a coral reef in Sri Lanka). His new one, The Sandglass (The New Press; 288 pages; $21.95), sweeps that theme up into an even ampler examination...
The source says officials of both the Palestinian Authority and Egypt are eager to deny putting a hand on Abu Nidal for fear of retaliation by his followers, who are well trained, armed and scattered around the gulf and North Africa. The source doubts the story that Abu Nidal is...
But the bomb was not, as some reported, on that water truck. It detonated somewhere behind the truck, leaving a crater 9 ft. wide and 4 ft. deep. Metal bits, perhaps from the mystery carrier but also from two dozen cars near the embassy, were scattered widely. A witness told...
Last week the CEO proposed his most spectacular link-up yet: a plan to merge $70 billion Bell Atlantic (which serves roughly 40 million customers in 13 states) with GTE, a $52 billion company with some 21 million widely scattered customers. Earlier in the week AT&T had announced a...