Word: tensed
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In fact, the foreign reaction is more appropriate. What is happening in Russia is a disaster, a frightening one that threatens the world with prolonged instability at best, and the rise of an increasingly isolated and hostile state--armed with about 22,000 nuclear warheads--at worst. The Western countries...
Talk about a baby boom. If you thought the postwar bulge of births was big in the West, just wait till it goes global. According to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations Population Fund, a higher proportion of the planet is entering its child-bearing years than ever...
Prophets of doom warn that the economic damage will bring social unrest, as failed harvests bring food shortages and flood damage increases joblessness. The flooding certainly adds a cruel twist to Beijing's Herculean challenge of shifting to a market economy, rapidly and profoundly altering the way millions of people...
President Milosevic has exploited Western reluctance to act by slowing down his campaign against Kosovo's Albanian majority -- without mounting a full-scale offensive, the Serbs have systematically recaptured territory and driven tens of thousands of civilians from their homes. The mounting tide of refugees has, however, raised pressure on...
But peace is the commodity the Sudanese people need most. Their starvation is all the worse because it is so unnecessary. Southern Sudan offers some of the most productive land in Africa, and the people who live there are hardworking farmers and herdsmen, past masters at raising cattle, coping with...