Word: spiderwebbed
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...million Age, in years, of the oldest known spiderweb--entombed in a piece of Spanish amber--announced last week...
...White House insists that the NSA is looking into only the communications of people who have known links to al-Qaeda. A former senior intelligence official told TIME the program was used to develop a "spiderweb" of links between any person connected to al-Qaeda who communicated from abroad and someone in the U.S. That in turn would lead investigators to whomever the U.S.-based person might communicate with later. The people under surveillance, he says, "always had an established link to al-Qaeda people." Or, as Cheney said recently, "if you're calling Aunt Sadie in Paris...
...most of Darfur's farmers are African and its nomads Arab, the two groups have mixed easily. Centuries of intermarriage have blurred the most obvious distinctions: nearly all Darfurians are black, Muslim and speak Arabic. Disputes between the two are traditionally settled using tribal laws as complex as the spiderweb of cattle routes and rivers that crisscross Darfur's plains...
...address in the hills above Pasadena. I take five freeways, three major thoroughfares and a spiderweb of smaller and smaller streets to get there. But I never do, because the turnoff listed on my map as Country Lane--two turns from my destination in a cul-de-sac--is plastered with signs reading PRIVATE DRIVE DO NOT ENTER NO TRESPASSING ARMED RESPONSE. I seem to be about half a mile from my goal, well beyond the range of a wireless-access point, and--communitarian spirit notwithstanding--I am not feeling encouraged to go the rest of the way. This seems...
...redirecting misguided streamlets. On Humboldt Peak, more than 400 tons of rock were hauled in by rope and bucket to plug a 4-ft.-deep gully that ran for a quarter-mile. On Grays Peak, a well-groomed trail to the summit will be fashioned to replace a spiderweb of paths that climbers have etched haphazardly in the tundra. On Bierstadt, which has been singled out for attention this summer, workers are building boardwalks and diverting stream runoff to dry up muddy quagmires that have engulfed the main route...