Word: slovenia
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From the beginning of yugoslavia's violent dissolution a decade ago, the feared endpoint was war in Macedonia. Every knowing pundit said the conflict that first grabbed the international community's attention in Slovenia in June 1991 would roll inexorably eastward. In time, they said, it would run up against the uneasy ethnic mix in Macedonia, the Yugoslav republic cursed with a contested name and surrounded by historically ill-willed neighbors. Match Macedonia with "powder keg" on an Internet search engine and you'll get 1,340 matches; "tinderbox" yields 332. Plenty of less shopworn slogans were brought to bear...
...Elsewhere in Europe, public distaste for the concept of cloning has reached the highest ranks of government. Thursday, legislatures in Slovakia, Slovenia, Greece, Spain and Georgia ratified a protocol to its Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine. It is, according to the council, "the first and only binding international agreement on cloning." Member nations are strictly prohibited from developing technology that could lead to the cloning of humans. France has outlawed human cloning altogether...
Business school student Narcisa Sehovic, buying a ticket to her hometown of Ljubljana, Slovenia from STA Travel, said that after comparing...
Peljto and her family emigrated from Bosnia to the United States in 1995. It was a long trek for Peljto as she and her family escaped war in Bosnia, moving to nearby Slovenia. It was there that Peljto picked up basketball...
...been overseas, is that I've spent the past week tuning in to radio stations around the world on my home PC. I've tapped my toes to Celtic rhythms on LiveIreland.com caught the latest Euro-pop from Eldoradio in Luxembourg, and discovered my new favorite station: Radio Slovenia. I wasn't even sure where Slovenia is, but its Internet radio station plays some of loveliest classical recordings I've heard in a long time...