Word: triggered
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...intends to cede to a Palestinian state. Needless to say the settlers, who are predominantly armed ideologues laying claim to what they see as the biblical Land of Israel regardless of Palestinian ownership or international law, have little interest in seeing through the peace process. And the present hair-trigger climate certainly gives the more reckless among them plenty of opportunity to subvert it. In 1994, Hebron settler Baruch Goldstein tried to do just that by massacring 29 Palestinians in a religious shrine before being beaten to death, and his action is still celebrated annually by sections of the settler...
...agreement on many issues, but not this one. When Israeli right-winger Ariel Sharon visited the site two weeks ago in a bid to boost his political support and reassert Israeli rights to the land, Arabs saw it as an act of such political arrogance that it could only trigger an outburst. In what Arabs call the "Aqsa intifadeh," the uprising of al-Aqsa Mosque on the Mount, at least 80 people have been killed and nearly 2,000 injured, mostly Palestinians...
...been admitted, and there had been no tuberculosis scare. Before the police could return for another round of questioning, Michelle went to the nursery to tend to the child and minutes later, in a separate bedroom, put a .22-cal. pistol in her mouth and pulled the trigger. Investigators later dug up the newly paved driveway and garage of her home. There they found a shallow grave and Theresa Andrews...
...pregnancy is still early enough for the pill to be used safely, which will automatically exclude many women who don't realize they are pregnant until more than 49 days after their last period. Two sets of pills are required--first mifepristone, then, two days later, misoprostol, to trigger contractions and expel the fetal tissue--and that can cause nausea, heavy bleeding and painful cramping. After about 12 days, a woman must return to the doctor to confirm that the abortion was successful...
...traders have been focusing on just one aspect of it: vaporized earnings as euros are converted to dollars. But there's a second shoe that might drop. Oil is sky high, and because oil is priced in dollars, the toll has risen way faster in Europe. The spike could trigger a dramatic slowdown that spills across the pond as U.S. earnings erode...