Word: shells
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...Grand Strategy will also need to rethink how we use international agencies to buttress our goals. We have been skeptical about their utility, from the Kyoto global-warming protocol to the United Nations, but they also deserve improvement, fresh resources, better personnel and enhanced purpose. Above all, a shell-shocked America will need to understand that a Grand Strategy to preserve this richly varied democracy is not just a wartime matter but something that has to be pursued in peacetime...
...horror of shell-shocked, bloodied civilians wandering the streets after a suicide bombing is a sight that Americans associate more with Jerusalem than with New York. But the attack on Sept. 11 brought the specter of terrorism to the centers of our nation’s greatest cities. This is a specter that Israel has been fighting for years, and the international coalition against terrorism that President George W. Bush is trying to assemble should include Israel as a partner...
...Yakima, Wash., the owners of a Shell station panicked last Tuesday night in wake of the New York and D.C. crises and started charging as much as $7 per gallon for gas. The freaking out lasted nearly
...much of his time developing relationships with micropurveyors--a commercial pilot who grows hearts of palm, a scholar who Fed-Exes her Maine lobsters to him. Then he focuses on the details: squeezing the moisture out of fish skin; steeping a lobster so he can cook it without the shell; straining everything over and over. "You look at a fish and you realize it was alive, and you respect the life of that fish and make sure you get the best out of it," he says...
...market forces. And right now, he's not doing very well. Nor could he be expected to, since the legislature is controlled by his enemies. Russian reformer Boris Yeltsin had the same problem in the '90s, but Fox doesn't have Yeltsin's option of sending in tanks to shell parliament. So, much of his agenda remains stalled...