Word: vacuums
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...that the more internationalism there is in the world, the more nationalism there will be: the more multinational companies, multicultural beings and planetary networks are crossing and transcending borders, the more other forces will, as if in response, fashion new divisions and aggravate old ones. Human nature abhors a vacuum, and it is only natural, when people find themselves in a desert, without boundaries, that they will try to assuage their vulnerability by settling into a community. Thus fewer and fewer wars take place these days across borders, and more and more take place within them...
...people as the ultimate source of sovereignty and some government institutions, usually the legislature and courts, as the ultimate sources of authority. In the emerging global politics, however, state sovereignty and authority are withering, and no alternative, such as some system of world government, is about to fill the vacuum. The result is almost certain to be chaos. The basic issue for the next quarter-century is whether statesmen will have the patience and wisdom to manage this chaos in peaceful rather than violent fashion...
...concert: she says that the upcoming "Twenty Four Seven" tour will be her last. But don't fret: Turner and her bionic legs aren't retiring from music all together. Instead, she's focusing on "smaller-less is more" projects. Diva-in-training Christina Aguilera hopes to fill the vacuum, headlining her first amphitheater tour this summer...
...think the year off is one of the best things that has ever happened to me." Levine says. "I feel like I view things differently. It's important not to let school suck you in like a vacuum and I feel like I have some perspective...
...Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: "It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...