Word: vitale
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...writing. His protagonists are often humble people who blossom in the face of difficulty. His most important novel is generally considered to be Désert, published in 1980 and largely set in the Moroccan Sahara. A lyrical, occasionally hallucinatory work, it deals with the marginalized but still fundamentally vital lives of African nomads, as contrasted with the bleakness of modern urban European life. "Western culture has become too monolithic," Le Clézio said in a 2001 interview with the French newsmagazine Label France. "It places the greatest possible emphasis on its urban and technical side, thus preventing...
Emphasizing the vital role the Tibetan people play in China’s “national family,” Lodi G. Gyari, special envoy of the Dalai Lama, called on the Chinese government to participate in bilateral talks with a sincere desire to reach a solution, in an appearance at the Kennedy School yesterday. Tibetan and Chinese officials are preparing to enter the eighth round of negotiations on the status of Tibetan political authority at the end of this month. But, with restrained responsiveness from Communist Party representatives, Gyari expressed concern over whether the ongoing discussions would lead...
...More importantly, this class of collider is vital to physics research. It has the potential to provide better answers to some of physics’ most niggling questions, like whether a Higgs Boson, the aforementioned “God Particle,” actually exists, or if the four fundamental forces in physics are all really the same force...
...meaning any carrots designed as a swap for that are regarded as illegitimate as the disuasive sticks," Hourcade says. "Each side has come to see denying the other what it's after as both a matter of pride as well as geo-strategic importance," agrees Billion. "The vital issue of nuclear development and use has been overwhelmed by the wider, habitual jousting between Iran and the West...
...together with allies such as France - has taken the lead in providing security in a vital shipping lane leading to and from the Suez Canal. Somalia has been convulsed by civil war since 1991, and as an attendant humanitarian disaster involving millions of refugees has spread chaos and lawlessness across the land, piracy at sea has rocketed. The primary strategic concern of the U.S. in the region appears to be rooting out al-Qaeda, which is why the U.S. military backed an Ethiopian invasion of Somalia to prevent a popular Islamist movement from taking power. But the Islamists remain powerful...