Word: thirst
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With so much blame to go around and such thirst for revenge, neither side's leadership seems willing or able to find a way out. Sharon called the deaths a "horrific murder" and ordered a missile strike on Yasser Arafat's Fatah offices in Gaza City, which wounded 20 Palestinians. But Sharon is caught between his hard-line constituents' demands to raise an iron hand against the Palestinians and the outside world's pleas to pursue a diplomatic solution. Even as fresh blood soaked the soil of the disputed land, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres was in Europe searching...
...unlikely that America?s thirst for vengeance will be sated by scientific theory. We are, as a nation, very much in favor of treating child criminals as adults - a recent ABC news poll showed 55 percent of us believe the crime, not the perpetrator?s age, should be the determining factor in sentencing...
...world water gap right now, this minute," the World Commission on Water has warned, "and the crisis will only get worse. The consequences of failing to bridge the gap will be higher food prices and expensive food imports for water-scarce countries that are predominantly poor." Hunger and thirst are also linked to political instability and low rates of economic growth...
...First of the new mergers was that of South Africa's Kalahari Gemsbok National Park and Botswana's Gemsbok National Park to create the Kgalagadi - meaning "land of thirst" - a 38,000-sq-km wilderness in which tourists and animals can move freely across the two countries' borders. Since the park's formal opening last May, tourist traffic has increased threefold to around 150,000 visitors a year. A Peace Parks Club offers tours that include tracking wild game on foot with experienced San, the indigenous bushmen of the Kalahari...
...overproduction of insulin because there?s so much food to process, and the pancreas quickly becomes exhausted and cuts down on insulin production. When the pancreas gives up, or slows down production, blood sugar starts to rise. That?s when people get the symptoms of diabetes, including excessive thirst, excessive urination and blurred vision...