Word: strife
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...Africa's Woes: Famine Two years of drought, flooding, political instability and incompetence have caused food shortages affecting as many as 15 million people in six southern African countries. Worst hit are Malawi, Zimbabwe and Zambia, where rains fell at the wrong time and floods washed away crops. Internal strife has not helped. Angola is emerging from decades of civil war. Land seizures have disrupted the commercial farms that once made Zimbabwe Africa's breadbasket. And Malawi sold off its grain reserves last year. See Also: A Journey Through Angola U.S. Funding Cut The U.S. government said it would...
...Race relations in America have improved immeasurably in the years since Brown v. Board of Education, but tension still remains. There is no better formula for peace and cooperation between different groups of people than integrated schooling from an early age; a quick glance at societies riven by internal strife provides ample evidence. In Northern Ireland, only 4 percent of students are educated in integrated Catholic-Protestant schools. In Israel, the education system for Israeli Arabs is separate-but-unequal (though to be fair, most Arabs prefer the current arrangement to integrated schooling...
...Trotsky, they were intense, intimate and imperfect - the trademarks of the man who would become famous as Capa, or "shark" in Hungarian. As Nazi power grew in Germany, Friedmann moved to Paris, the only city he would ever consider home. In France, he documented the social and industrial strife of the mid-1930s, struggled to earn a living and fell in love with Gerda Taro. Accepting him for what he was - a charming rogue, a heavy drinker and a notorious womanizer - Taro shared his work, his bed and his dreams. Together they invented Robert Capa, a rich, famous, talented American...
...someone killed would cost $100 if you bargained well. "Would anybody care?" Rall asks. "Why would they?" is the hard-boiled reply. Even through his limited experience as an visitor, Rall's story opens a window on the Afghani's life. As a product of near constant war and strife, they have created a culture of near-instantaneous adaptation and opportunism...
INDIA To Lower the Flames of Hatred With 817 people already dead in the worst intercommunal strife in a decade, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee belatedly visited the western state of Gujarat. The violence began in Godhra a month ago when a Muslim mob set fire to a train, killing 60 Hindu activists, provoking revenge attacks of murder, arson and looting. On the eve of the visit five Muslims died when their homes near Ahmedabad were torched. Vajpayee told victims that the failure of the local administration to prevent the violence would be investigated...