Word: triggered
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...armed soldiers”. Hasan neglects to mention that Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount—a Jewish holy site as well as a Muslim one—had been cleared with Palestinian security forces and that Sharon had been assured it would trigger no violence...
...came about last January is a distant memory, and so are the Oslo Accords, Sharm-el-Sheikh and the proposed Camp David agreements. Although Israelis and Palestinians need a breakthrough deal more desperately than ever before, the peace process continues to be held captive by Palestinian extremists and a trigger-happy Israeli military. According to many commentators, fault lies with the political elites. The more cynical argue that peace is impossible under the current Israeli and Palestinian leadership, and that the only hope for peace is to wait until Yasser Arafat, 72, dies off and Ariel Sharon, 73, either retires...
That ban doesn't affect ACT, which is privately funded, but stem cells from aborted fetuses are problematic in any case. Like any foreign tissue, they can trigger rejection; ideally, doctors would prefer to get stem cells from a patient's own body. The most direct way to do that is through cloning, and ACT scientists took the first steps in that direction by two different techniques. In one, they stimulated an unfertilized egg to begin dividing on its own. In the other, they removed the nucleus from a donated egg and inserted that of an adult--the same method...
...There's a lot more dialogue at the CEO level," says Steve Baronoff, head of global M&A at Merrill Lynch. "As CEO confidence grows, you'll see a lot more pull the trigger on deals." He notes that the deal pipeline at Merrill has begun to refill in the past month and that economically sensitive companies--including tech, telecom and media--have begun discussing deals that could take place the first half of next year...
...Saturday night buying special commemorative crackers near Masako's childhood home in Tokyo's Meguro ward. "I hope she gives it another shot, and that next time, it'll be a boy." Given Japan's current state of psychological flux and funk, a girl seems almost appropriate, certain to trigger soul searching and hand wringing about gender roles, about the long-term viability of the monarchy?in other words, to create one more muddle at a time when it seems that's what Japan does best...