Word: spate
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...Islamiah, which the U.S. believes is closely linked with al-Qaeda, the terrorist network headed by Osama bin Laden. And al-Qaeda, CIA Director George Tenet said in congressional testimony last week, is now in "execution phase." Indeed, senior U.S. intelligence sources tell TIME that they fear a recent spate of terrorist attacks around the world may be a warm-up for a much bigger strike against American interests. Al-Qaeda prisoners now being interrogated, says a senior U.S. counterterrorism official, "keep talking about a spectacular event. And I don't think we saw that event in Bali...
...backpackers, let alone world leaders in inappropriate attire. On a good day, Petra?the ancient city of the Nabataean kingdom that ruled Arabia 2,000 years ago and was, until recently, Jordan's primary tourist attraction?drew 3,000 visitors daily. But that was before Israel erupted in a spate of violence that sent tourists packing region-wide. These days, only a few trickle through the two-kilometer-long narrow, rose-hued stone gorge to emerge, blinking in the sunlight, opposite the Treasury building, a location easily recognizable to fans of the final Indiana Jones movie...
...Party chief to Hu at the party's congress in November--will instead cling to power, holding on to the party position, as well as that of military chief. Over the summer, Jiang's staff organized a petition campaign in the provinces to get him to stay; suddenly a spate of pro-Jiang stories appeared in the state-run press, and now the evening news features nightly reports of people all over China studying Jiang's ideas. Jiang's real plans are unknown, and China watchers are resorting to a kind of East Asian Kremlinology to guess what's coming...
Genelle starts biting her nails as she recounts these things. She says she is fine, that last fall's spate of nightmares has ended, that she rarely has a bad day. And when she is depressed, she says, it's not about Sept. 11, but usually about some silly argument she has had with Roger. When she gets sad, she plays gospel CDs and cranks the volume. She weeps. She can sing along with one of her favorite songs, Yolanda Adams' Fragile Heart...
...meantime, residents of the eastern U.S. are hoping against hope for some kind of mosquito oriented disaster of Biblical proportions, like a miniature ice age that effects only bugs or perhaps a spate of far-reaching mosquito suicide pacts. Failing that, we can at least keep our fingers crossed for new developments in the world of repellent sprays...