Word: unitization
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...idea is to limit surprises in the very situations where they are most likely to arise. "From a tactical perspective, we generally have operations that have been on the ground," says Rigoberto Giron, director of CARE's emergency and humanitarian-assistance unit. "Those workers know all the local contacts and cultural constraints, so they've got a good sense of what needs to be done and the best way to get it done." In a disaster, response teams identify the needs and the fund-raising required and then work with the country team to leverage local resources...
...practicing Catholics from Latin America, Spain has seen the arrival of an estimated 1 million Muslims in the past two decades, mostly from North Africa. Moroccan-born Abdul Aziz, 42, is likewise skeptical of gay marriage, and the ease with which many native Spaniards jettison the traditional family unit. "There are so many people not married, with no children. For me, this is not life. Life should be a mother, father, children," says the unemployed construction worker and father of two. He says Islam is a regular part of his life, even as he becomes more and more Catalan...
...impressive as Kessler has been this season, she couldn’t do it without a little help. That help has come from a defensive unit led by tri-captain Cahow...
...alert. In south Lebanon, young men normally living and working in Beirut during the weekdays were back in their home villages last week, visible indication that Hizballah has placed its cadres on standby. "We are ready for another war and it will come," says a local Hizballah unit commander who fought in the 2006 war. On the walls of his sitting room, "martyr" portraits of his fallen comrades are plastered alongside pictures of Hizballah chief Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah and Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khameini. In another room, a walkie-talkie constantly squawked as Hizballah fighters kept in contact...
...family named Knezevic decide it's time to secede from northern Kosovo? Will Bob, the Kenezvics' 17-year-old son who doesn't really talk to anyone at holiday dinners anymore, decide he wants to secede from the family? At some point you hit what scientists call the terminal unit - the smallest reducible component of any system - and this feels like...