Word: shaken
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...Taiwan, however, needs fewer martyrs and more heroes. Last Monday, the island was shaken by news that nearly 150 frightened doctors and nurses in Taipei and in the southern city of Kao-hsiung had resigned, at a time when they are needed most. On Friday, the World Health Organization (WHO) removed Hong Kong and Guangdong from its infamous travel-advisory list, confident that these former hot zones had contained the disease. But in Taiwan, the epidemic shows little sign of letting up as the number of SARS cases on the island rose in seven days from...
...makes me sick." After two months fighting for a visa, Satrapi arrived at JFK Airport in New York on May 14. For an hour and a half she was interrogated, fingerprinted and, she says, talked down to by customs officials. Afterward, in the corridor of the airport, drained and shaken, she did something she has never done: she fainted, "like one of these Victorian ladies," she says, laughing. Or like her mother, watching her leave Tehran airport so many years before. Then Satrapi got up, climbed into a waiting limo, rolled down the windows and started smoking...
...named a terrorist target in an audiotape attributed to Ayman al-Zawahiri. The al-Qaeda No. 2 was railing against the war in Iraq, which Norway actually opposed. Most likely, it was a case of fuzzy geography. "Of course he means Denmark," a Danish terrorism expert told one reporter. Shaken Country ALGERIA Angry earthquake survivors criticized the government for what they said were inadequate rescue efforts and blamed shoddy construction work for the high death toll. The devastating quake killed around 1,900 people and injured at least 7,000. The rescue of a 21-year-old man from...
...prominent Italian convert, is suspicious. "We would be coming from a position of weakness," he said. "There is no unifying voice, and our electoral weight is still not strong enough." That could position Pisanu as arguably the most powerful voice in Italy's Islamic affairs. - By Jeff Israely/Rome A Shaken Country turkey The army fired warning shots to control 1,000 angry demonstrators who clashed with police Thursday in the southeast city of Bingol after a powerful earthquake struck the area, killing more than 120. The protesters accused the government of responding inadequately to the quake, which measured...
...wearing a pained expression on his wrinkled face, Ryan conveyed the impression of a man who has wrestled with his own shortcomings. There were no overt references to his speckled past or potentially troubled future, but the former governor and consummate politician seemed unpolished, as if he had been shaken by his years in the statehouse...