Word: walks
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Clinton huffs and puffs -- and takes a walk...
...development projects." If sustainable development proves illusory, environmentalists will be left with a huge problem: there is no big idea ready to fill the void. With human numbers expected to double in the next 60 years, policymakers must now find some new trail map that will enable humanity to walk the ledge between rising material expectations and the wholesale collapse of the biosphere...
Most American playwrights seem obsessed with the hearth and its heartaches, but Lee Blessing takes on big political questions, finding the human dimension without stinting the abstraction. Since his 1987 breakthrough work, A Walk in the Woods, about nuclear arms control, he has tackled Beirut hostage taking (Two Rooms), the Gulf War (Fortinbras), Central American insurrection (Lake Street Extension), racism in sport (Cobb), crime and the media (Down the Road) and now AIDS. His appetite for moral complexity has never been more challenged, and his capacity to avoid settling for mere indignation has never been more welcome, than in Patient...
...with an orderly command and a habit of obedience. All but one or two of the top officers are professionals from the old Yugoslav People's Army, but the ranks are filled by farmers, laborers and shopkeepers fighting for their homes. Many live no more than a few minutes' walk from the front lines. They will not be persuaded to give up these homes and move again...
...that snuffed out 300,000 lives in 1992 may have passed its peak before the Marines landed. But there is no doubt that the American-led intervention saved many. Julie Bryant, a Red Cross nurse outside Bardera, recalls that often children were trundled in in wheelbarrows, too weak to walk. "Look," she says, pointing to a boy registered in her logbook. "That child should have been dead. Now there is such life here: they argue, they play football." As she speaks, a group of kids runs past chasing a pet baboon with a red cross painted on its bottom...