Word: upward
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...getting better. The polite packer helping direct traffic in our apartment confided to my husband that he had actually helped move us into our apartment three years ago. Back then, he was a simple day laborer. Now he was a foreman. Many stories in China have a similar upward trajectory. If nothing else, I would miss China for the promise it holds...
...years hence, this analysis seems borne out by London. Not only was the attack moving toward execution as Israel and Hizballah ignited the Middle East, but 10 planes exploding over the Atlantic or in U.S. airspace would indeed have created what U.S. experts believe our jihadist opponents desire: an upward arc of terror and dread between a second-wave attack and whatever might follow, five or even 10 years down the road...
...draw whatever blood and teeth as they can from Hizballah. Even that may not be enough to sway an Israeli public openly doubtful that the war has been won. Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has seen his poll numbers take a dive similar to those of President Bush, from upward of 70 percent approval to figures in the low 40s - except that while Bush's slide occurred over the four years that followed 9/11, Olmert's came in just four weeks of war. The Prime Minister has looked skittish and indecisive, caught between the impulses of escalation and restraint, and apparently...
...Hizballah's tenacity and its guerrilla tactics have allowed it to inflict substantial casualties on the Israeli forces - upward of 70 soldiers since the campaign began, and 15 on Wednesday alone - and to continue fighting despite Israel's huge technological advantages. That makes Israeli control of the areas in which they've deployed partial, at best. For example, the Israeli military first announced that they had captured the village stronghold of Bint Jbeil two weeks ago, yet they have lost more than 20 men in ongoing fighting there since that date. And the decentralized and mobile nature of the Hizballah...
...Heading north, the structures seem to grow taller, until they turn into massive domes and spires. The largest mounds hold upward of a million insects working in blind harmony. Mounds can reach 7 m high and 12 m around the base, and may have taken a century or more of painstaking construction. The termites mix a drop of saliva with soil, plant matter and excrement and deposit it like a tiny brick; somehow, in the darkness, each knows where to place its contribution to form the maze of tunnels and chambers that harden like concrete...