Word: streamingly
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Fears. By now, most Americans know better than to feel safe, but last week the Bush Administration helpfully reminded us just how frightened we're supposed to be. Coupled with an FBI advisory about possible al-Qaeda attacks on the Statue of Liberty and the Brooklyn Bridge, the stream of official doomsaying caused a new round of jitters in time for summer vacation...
...bombings are also a distinct possibility. Three other top Administration officials quickly echoed the fatalistic mantra. Their predictions weren't altogether new, but they contained hotter adjectives than Americans were used to. Before, new attacks were likely; now they were "inevitable." All the while, the FBI dispensed a steady stream of all-terrain warnings--about potential attacks on land, in the air and underwater. Specifically, New Yorkers were told that the Brooklyn Bridge, the Statue of Liberty and their apartment buildings could be targeted; the country's 103 nuclear power plants were placed on heightened alert; and new, cryptic...
...Arafat's newfound freedom may, ironically, have done the job. Arafat denounced the Petah Tikvah bombing, as he has done in response to a number of recent attacks inside Israel - PA leaders even refer to these attacks as "terrorist operations." But that has done nothing to stop a relentless stream of Palestinian youths from turning themselves into human bombs...
...given day, a steady stream of cars find their way there. On weekends, more than 1,000 visitors may show up to look at the little town that taught us that no place is beyond terrorism's reach. They come from every state in the union, climbing to the crest of Skyline Road to see what remains of the now legendary Flight 93: absolutely nothing. With the crater long ago filled in, they can only gaze out on a rolling field that protrudes like a bald spot from a grove of hemlocks. "The horror of the event and the beauty...
...would all be wasteland. With it, Nizwa is a lush oasis of date palms about 165 km from Muscat. Its recently restored 17th century fort is the largest structure from that era on the Arabian peninsula. Check out the deceptive architecture featuring false passageways, as well as the underground stream that provided a steady source of water in case of siege...