Word: swamp
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...first foreigners to visit the micro paradise. Probas, as we later found out he was called, brought us to his father, a fisherman named Makhan. We negotiated a price for the trip?a couple of dollars?and the two of them led us through the fields into a mangrove swamp. Our feet sank into mud so black and thick it seemed they would never come back out. But Probas guided our steps and eventually, about 400 m from the shore, we found the boat...
...IRAN Warring Words Iran responded angrily to continued U.S. claims that it is developing weapons of mass destruction. One military leader warned of "another Vietnam" if the U.S. struck Iran, and former President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said that the U.S. would find itself in a "bloody swamp." Amid the rhetoric was one sign of detente: after U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell accused Iran of trying to destabilize the interim Afghan government, Tehran said it may deport an Afghan warlord who opposes the Kabul regime...
...happiness with which he has disguised himself has grown onto his face. On 21, a woman’s therapist shoots herself in the stomach, leaving her to her Valium addiction and post-abortion depression. The pamphlet leaves no room for question—the outside world is a swamp of loose principles, false relationships and selfish emotions. The solution? At the other end of a toll-free number: 1-888-TWELVETribes...
...deadly agents could be delivered through the air. But of these, smallpox may be the most worrisome. Killing 30% of those infected and leaving the rest scarred for life, it spreads easily from person to person, especially in a population that has largely lost its immunity; mass outbreaks would swamp hospitals. While vaccination in the first days after infection offers the only cure, enough freeze-dried vaccine left over from the early 1980s remains on hand to inoculate, by some estimates, just 7.5 million people. In this state of unpreparedness, smallpox could take many lives...
...poorly represented on one front in Friday’s speech. Summers reaffirmed his intention to aggressively develop University land in Allston in what may turn out to be a multi-billion dollar expansion, citing the precedents set by the construction of Harvard Business School on a former swamp and the Kennedy School of Government on a former Red Line train yard. But though expansion is sorely needed, the issue is more complex than a matter of building on new and far-flung land; it will require careful planning and a respectful relationship with the Allston community...