Word: tensing
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(2 of 4) Downriver, it's easy to see the cause of this deadly hostility. Since the 1950s, when oil was first found in recoverable quantities, the Delta and the waters off Nigeria's coast in the Gulf of Guinea have made the country and oil majors such as Chevron...
New Orleans was a disaster site before Katrina. So far that year, 202 people had been murdered. Computer models predicted that about 107 more were going to be killed before the year was out. "We were watching the lid come off," says Peter Scharf, a University of New Orleans criminologist...
They spent days calling friends to find out where everyone was. One friend suggested that they crash at his apartment in Houston, so they piled back into the Dodge Caravan. Unfortunately, Houston had minimal housing vacancies when Katrina came along, and most of the cheaper apartments were clustered in large...
Once the U.S. and European Union forbade him from working with the new Hamas-led Palestinian government, Wolfensohn's job became untenable. Israeli papers report that Wolfensohn's decision also came in response to the U.S. - at the behest of Israeli officials - blocking a plan by Britain, the E.U. and...
Over the past three years, the conflict in Darfur has displaced more than 2 million people and killed tens of thousands - perhaps more than 200,000. But in the past year the fighting, which originally pitted black African tribesmen against Sudan's government in Khartoum and its vicious Janjaweed militia...