Word: splintered
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...been suggested by Dr. Michael Brownlee, of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York City. Glucose, Brownlee observes, is chemically active, combining with proteins in the blood and blood-vessel walls. Over time, these sticky fragments aggregate to form what Brownlee calls "biological superglue." Like a splinter lodged in a foot, this superglue is a source of constant irritation, which signifies, to the body, damage in need of repair. The disastrous result: a spurt of new growth that thickens the walls of capillaries and arteries, constricts blood flow and damages critical organs...
Kach as an organization will probably not survive for long. The movement was held together by Kahane's intensely charismatic personality, and there is no heir-apparent ready to take over. Chances are that the party will splinter, as so many other Israeli political movements have done in the past, and lose many members to other right-wing parties. The fanatical anti-Arab sentiment of Kahane's followers will probably survive without...
...contrast, a collapse of the Uruguay Round would undoubtedly lead to greater friction between major trading nations and increase the chances that the world will splinter into giant, exclusionary trading blocs. The negative consequences would not end there. The stability of poorer nations, including emerging East European democracies that will rely heavily on exports, would be seriously undermined. So would the chances of organizing alliances to deal with such international crises as the face-off in the Persian Gulf. A breakthrough is still possible, Hills declares, "because the upside is so fantastic and the downside of failure is so grim...
Lewandowski lives in Gdansk, where the Solidarity movement was born during widespread strikes a decade ago. An early activist in the movement, Lewandowski describes himself as a top advisor on economic policy to Polish Solidarity leader Lech Walesa until he began his own political party, a splinter party of the Solidarity movement which will support Walesa in the November elections...
...crisis were planted eight years ago after a former policeman named Lennox Phillip went to Canada to study engineering and returned to Trinidad as Yasin Abu Bakr, an ardent Islamic radical. Bakr soon became the leader of the Jamaat al-Muslimeen, or Group of Muslims. The Islamic splinter group, with few ties to the mainstream Muslims who make up 6% of the Trinidad and Tobago population of 1.3 million, espoused a potent mixture of religious fundamentalism and left-wing politics. The self-styled "Imam" traveled to Libya and was a vocal supporter of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, but the main interest...