Word: swathe
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...most counts, says Mansbridge, who adds the result is hardly surprising given that the University only grants tenure at the senior level following the publication of at least two books.But Professor of the Practice of Romance Languages and Literatures Kimberlee Campbell says the focus on tenure neglects a broad swath of longterm faculty—like preceptors—many of whom are women.“My sense is that the 50 million is going to where it’s most visible which is tenure or almost tenure,” she says. “The issue...
...international troops have arrived to keep the peace. But the suffering of Congo's people continues. Fighting persists in the east, where rebel holdouts loot, rape and murder. The Congolese army, which was meant to be both symbol and protector in the reunited country, has cut its own murderous swath, carrying out executions and razing villages. Even deadlier are the side effects of war, the scars left by years of brutality that disfigure Congo's society and infrastructure. The country is plagued by bad sanitation, disease, malnutrition and dislocation. Routine and treatable illnesses have become weapons of mass destruction. According...
...negotiations is a determination that all the alternatives--including a military confrontation while the U.S. is still tied down in Iraq and Afghanistan--are worse. A U.S. officer says, "We are so taxed right now, we don't have the ground troops to launch an attack." A large swath of Republicans close to Bush say they realize the country does not have the stomach for another war and Bush has lost the reservoir of trust that he had going into Afghanistan and Iraq. A senior Administration official says that for now the U.S. isn't planning a dramatic shift toward...
...RELEASED. Xiang Xiang, 4, 83-kg giant panda; into the wild, marking the first time a panda bred in captivity was freed; in a forest in Sichuan province, China, as a swath of bamboo shoots, the animal's favorite food, were starting to sprout. Xiang Xiang was reared at China's Wolong Giant Panda Research Center. Wolong officials, who spent three years training Xiang Xiang to fend for himself and will continue to monitor the panda with a satellite tracking system, said the event was a key step in boosting the population of the endangered species, which now numbers about...
...scent of ylang-ylang floats on the breeze, Worcester points out a dark swath of forest where he once lived on the banks of a tributary in a shack with no walls and, until a neighbor ran an extension cord to his place to power a lamp, no electricity. "I used to fish from my lounge room," he says wistfully. Such accommodation might sound sweet to some, but if taking eco-holidays is about being immersed in natural beauty with some indulgence along the way, the Daintree lodge hideaway is a happy choice. Green ants...