Word: wreak
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...Melee at the Madrasah Your story on the standoff at a mosque in Islamabad is of a radical Islam that will wreak havoc to uphold its ideologies [July 16]. But it failed to mention that the views held by those responsible for the siege of Islamabad's Red Mosque are not truly representative of Islam. There is no religion in the world that justifies the use of violence or promotes taking the law into one's own hands. The residents of the Lal Masjid compound have done both by forcefully occupying land and abducting people. If any of the victims...
When it became apparent that last month's car bomb attack on Glasgow airport had failed to wreak its intended carnage, people in Scotland felt able to relax, to relish even some of the slapstick quality of the attack's spectacular failure...
Five years ago, Jose Padilla was the Dirty Bomber, a "known terrorist" at the core of "an unfolding terrorist plot" to wreak havoc on the United States with a "radioactive dirty bomb," as then-Attorney General John Ashcroft proclaimed...
...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest assessment on global warming, which was released last week in Bangkok. While the first two sections made for depressing reading-nailing down the scientific basis for global warming and laying out nightmare scenarios of the havoc climate change could wreak-the last chapter is comparatively optimistic. Drawing on the work of thousands of scientists vetted by officials from over 100 countries, the IPCC reported that future carbon emissions could be controlled using current technology like nuclear or renewable energy-and that it could be done without bankrupting the global economy. "Measures...
...Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's (IPCC) latest assessment on global warming, which was released Friday morning in Bangkok. While the first two sections made for depressing reading - nailing down the scientific basis for global warming and laying out nightmare scenarios of the havoc climate change could wreak - the last chapter is comparatively optimistic. Drawing on the work of thousands of scientists vetted by officials from over 100 countries, the IPCC reported that future carbon emissions could be controlled using current technology like nuclear or renewable energy - and that it could be done without bankrupting the global economy. "Measures...