Word: war-torn
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Compared to so many other war-torn regions, the Balkan province of Kosovo was progressing nicely. Since NATO bombing ended in 1999, a government with limited powers had been elected. Security was improving. Kosovo Serbs, a minority in the predominantly ethnic Albanian province, could leave their fortified enclaves to shop, work, go skiing. "Things are getting back to normal," a Kosovo Serb restaurateur told Time last month. "People are ready to forget the past and move on." Alas, civil war is not easily forgotten. In a rash of attacks that spread across the province last week like a bushfire, ethnic...
...effort to restore order to Iraq’s war-torn libraries, Harvard will participate in an initiative to train Iraqi librarians to modernize their holdings and their cataloguing methods, according to an announcement Thursday...
Aristide Is Out Now that Haiti's President has departed, can any successor bring peace to this poor and war-torn nation...
...position to do so. But how long will that last? Bush’s philosophical aversion to nation-building, which he announced during the presidential debate of October 11, 2000, has so far prevented him from committing the necessary amounts of troops or reconstruction money to the war-torn nation. November’s $87 billion appropriation to “fight terrorism” in Afghanistan and Iraq earmarked a mere $1.2 billion for Afghan reconstruction (with another $10 billion for continued military operations there), and the measly deployment of American peacekeepers in Afghanistan means that the country...
...INDIA: In war-torn Kashmir, Gulmarg has the world's highest golf course, at 2,650 m, and one of the world's highest lifts, at 4,138 m. It may also be the cheapest: $6 a day covers lift rides and equipment rental, but not the chairlift hookah pictured here...