Word: strength
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...Traditionally, the commune's friction with local police has been over drug policy. Pusher Street, Christiania's ramshackle main thoroughfare, allowed cannabis dealers to display their wares in glass-topped cabinets, graded according to strength - until a police incursion in 2003. Still, the authorities claim, some $200,000 of marijuana is still bought and sold every day in Christiania, and critics charge that the commune long ago sold out its ideals...
...three concerns of parents who withdrew their children centered on school quality: 32 percent questioned the strength of the academics, 11 percent cited safety and classroom management issues, and 10 percent pointed to sub-par teaching instruction...
...avoid nuclear conflict. The Kennedy who emerges is a wily pragmatist who had certain moral limits that he would not compromise. In November 1961, Kennedy gave a speech in which he said that there was nothing "soft" about averting nuclear war and that America showed its true strength when it avoided using military force...
...still practice Buddhism? If so, how has it helped you? -Maike Lehmann KÖNIGSFELD, GERMANYI have been chanting for 24 years. It has brought me a lot of strength and wisdom in the sense that even in the most dire times, I didn't get lost. I knew that if I wanted to survive, it wasn't about healing or trying to forget. It was about how I could use my life to answer what had happened to us. In many ways, it saved my life...
...find the strength to forgive? Do you forgive the extremists that killed your husband? -Poulomi Harolikar, Bangalore, IndiaI wouldn't use forgiveness. I don't think I do deep down, to be honest, but I don't think it is a point for me either. As I said, forgiveness wouldn't be enough for me to survive this. I have no reason to forgive people that acted willingly in a very clear, cold way. For me, forgiveness is not enough...