Word: tamed
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...acrid smoke, witnesses said passengers were remarkably calm. Could they be getting used to such atrocities? The underground carnage was yet another reminder of how dangerous Russia has become since President Vladimir Putin came to power. While Putin has imposed draconian curbs on the media and created a tame parliament - some of whose members are now urging him to extend the presidential term from four to seven years - he has not been able to pacify Chechnya, the breakaway republic whose separatists were swiftly blamed for the subway bombing. In 1999 Putin, then a new and little-known Prime Minister...
...There are plenty of tame and tethered elephants in Sri Lanka?just the previous night in Kandy, we had seen 80 of them paraded at the Kandy Perahera, the country's biggest religious festival...
...last week a suicide bomber brought mayhem to a street less than 100 m from the Kremlin. The most likely scenario is stasis: Chechnya will continue to bleed and bombs will explode throughout Russia. One thing is certain: however bad it gets, Putin will get no flak from the tame Duma...
Halloween was part of the traditional pre-Christian cycle of festivals in many different parts of Europe. The Church tried to tame it in a variety of ways, but the idea that it is a time when the veil between our world and the Otherworld is especially thin and the two can communicate persists. Witches were often accused of participating in sabbats on this date, and certainly modern witches have embraced the occasion as well...
Let’s face it, human intelligence puts us at greater risk than the possibility that malevolent aliens may someday wander through our corner of the galaxy. The fact that we take planetary protection seriously, though, hints that we may have the tools to tame the beast within and use our brains wisely in the service of life. Through the “safe exploring” embodied in planetary protection, we take the best in our nature with us as we take our first steps beyond the Earth...