Word: soils
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...cold war competition has evaporated, but the world has not necessarily grown safer. While the West no longer lives in fear of a surprise attack from the Soviet Union, it worries very seriously when and where some of the 27,000 nuclear warheads on former Soviet soil might slip into the hands of irresponsible governments or terrorists elsewhere on the planet. More than 25 countries are on the road to building weapons of mass destruction -- or buying them from those who have too many arms and too little money. Every industrial state is trying to steal another's high-tech...
...local police post, which boasts a .50-cal. machine gun and the sergeant's collection of whips. The only work to be found is making charcoal that is shipped by boat to the slums of Port-au-Prince, but with each tree that is cut and burned, more soil washes away, and with it the village's livelihood. "We used to be able to grow cereal crops here, corn and rice," says Rene Coty, the local schoolteacher. "But no longer; the land has washed away. Instead we grow charcoal -- a crop with no future...
...constant: for every funeral, the whole village turns out. Even so, Muslim soldiers do not call for military intervention from abroad. Just lift the international embargo on arms shipments to Bosnia, they say, and they will handle this war. Meanwhile they have dug themselves deep into their native soil and are beating back Serb attacks with little more than the firepower of rifles and grenades...
Health officials from several states, the Indian Health Service and the National Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have mounted a frantic investigation to determine the cause of the illness. Health workers have fanned out across the reservation, taking samples of food, water and soil, as well as combing through the coats of cows, sheep and dogs for hair, ticks, fleas and fecal matter. "We've excluded the usual bacterial, fungal and parasitic infections," says Dr. Ron Voorhees, a New Mexico state epidemiologist. Ruled out are anthrax, plague and Legionnaires' disease, as well as insecticides and other toxins. Two bacteria...
...something less than militant action. The Serb assault on Srebrenica forced nothing more than what had been all but agreed upon -- and pushed off -- earlier in the week. The Council did what it has done so often to such poor effect: it drew a line in the blood- soaked soil of the Balkans and defied the Serbs to step over it. They lost no time in obliging. On Saturday a vanguard of 60 Canadian blue helmets en route to Srebrenica from Tuzla and an aid convoy from Belgrade failed to cross Serb lines. The soldiers were turned back by local...