Word: sri
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State's figures, however, do not include incidents staged by terrorists who operate within one country with little or no foreign state sponsorship, such as the Irish Republican Army, the Shining Path guerrillas of Peru and the Tamil Tigers in Sri Lanka. Even the more conventional Middle East-based terrorists retain a dangerous capacity for bloodshed, as evidenced by the mid- March bombing of the Israeli embassy in Buenos Aires and assaults by Kurdish separatists who last week machine-gunned a bus in Istanbul and attacked policemen and police stations in five cities throughout Turkey...
...longer get cricks in their necks (from craning to watch a TV) and elbows (from manipulating long-handled instruments of awkward design). A few dream of operating by remote control, their heads encased in virtual-reality helmets. Don't laugh, they chide skeptics. On the drawing boards at SRI International is an inkling of just such a system, one that might someday allow a surgeon in St. Louis to operate on an astronaut in low earth orbit. Even better may be novel ways of destroying diseased organs -- through heat, perhaps -- without cutting into the body...
...invests abstractions -- comprehensive categories and grand postulations -- with more weight than messy reality will support. For instance, in a chart intended to show how the number of "liberal democracies" on earth has grown, he includes Singapore, where there are laws against chewing gum and failing to flush public toilets; Sri Lanka, where murderous ethnic and religious violence continues nonstop; and Colombia, where narcoterrorists butcher judges and parliamentarians in broad daylight...
...that the Bible prescribes as the mortal life-span. Its passing should free our "striving spirit" to concentrate on all sorts of other challenges, such as the growing conflict between the haves and the have-nots and the need to refine liberal democracy, not just in places like Sri Lanka but in the developed world as well. So Fukuyama can cheer up. The continuation of history will be plenty interesting...
...looms overhead. "The vision we've had about this place has changed," says Stone. "Economically, we're a region at risk." In what is probably the ultimate indignity, some residents say the area is becoming like Los Angeles. "The Valley," notes Thomas Mandel, a futurist for the consulting firm SRI, "is going through a mid-life crisis...