Word: tensions
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...rich countries as well, many cities are not quite the magnets they used to be. In return for the highest combined city and state taxes in the U.S., residents of New York City get deteriorating bridges and roads, racial tension that frequently ignites violence, schools in which students must worry about gun battles erupting in the hallways, subway stations that double as public urinals, and streets full of panhandlers. Last summer one house in a middle- class neighborhood in Brooklyn was burglarized on five separate occasions, and the police did nothing to stop the robberies...
...rising tension is forcing American commanders to tighten the rules on confiscating Somali weapons. Until now, the troops have seized arms displayed openly and with hostile intent. Now the U.S. military is promising to take a more aggressive role in ridding Somalia of the heavier weapons and the "technicals" -- gun-equipped pickup trucks -- that have terrified the populace for the past two years. "Heavy weapons will be removed voluntarily or, if necessary, by force," a senior U.S. official told Reuters. "From now on, we're going to be doing more enforcement." That will still leave untold numbers of small arms...
...really is too late? In hopes of heading off future conflict, the U.N. is considering dispatching 700 peacekeepers to Macedonia. Ethnic tension there, already high, could explode if Slobodan Milosevic is re-elected President of neighboring Serbia...
...years ago, in another quarter of town, he cornered a drug dealer, only to discover it was a baby-face 11-year-old boy. The child had a gun. Earl slid his own service revolver back into the holster, hoping to defuse the tension and thinking of his own son that age. After a few words, the child pulled the trigger, and a .32-caliber slug ripped through Earl's groin, coming to rest between the muscle and spine. Earl returned a single shot. The boy fell dead. "After I shot the kid, I rocked him in my arms," says...
...only voice teacher. "She initiated it so slowly and carefully that I wasn't aware of it at first," says the daughter, who also detoured through girlhood enthusiasms for flamenco dancing and the trombone. "The voice," Silvana instructed Cecilia, "must come out naturally, no rigidity or tension -- like yawning." The family is very close, and Cecilia credits her realistic view of the rarefied opera world to her parents' unawed support...