Word: wrought
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Acronym for the fast-food bakery Au Bon Pain, where croissants, chess enthusiasts and tourists abound just beyond the Yard's wrought-iron gates...
Relief officials say Kosovars in the refugee camps will probably dispatch "pioneer groups" to survey the damage wrought by the war. It is not an encouraging picture. At least half the houses in Kosovo have been razed. There are no viable livestock or crops. Simply feeding the internally displaced Kosovars will require shipments of 1,000 tons of food daily. Because Serbian authorities destroyed most of the ethnic Albanians' personal records, KFOR and the U.N.'s civilian administrators will face the nightmarish task of sorting out those who have legal claims to land and property. The U.S. hopes to organize...
...slightly warmer than it was 100 years ago and they predict that it will continue to get warmer, and at a faster rate, during the next century because of the greenhouse effect of pollution. ?Evidently some species are already taking steps to adapt to what we have wrought,? says Kluger. Which raises a big question: If butterflies are wasting no time to vote with their wings, where does that leave...
...list from the war's first night--didn't win political approval until the recent NATO summit in Washington. Taking on such politically sensitive sites is fraught with peril for the allies: Belgrade ensures that the ruination caused by every misaimed bomb is televised worldwide, while the wholesale horrors wrought by Belgrade's paramilitaries in Kosovo are hidden from view. And while allied mistakes may be rare, if the war is literally brought into your living room, NATO's overall accuracy is small consolation. Inside Yugoslavia, at least, it is becoming harder for many to see the distinction between targeting...
...journalism. He interviews the bullfighter El Cordobes and retraces Mahatma Gandhi's last moments. Much of the narrative runs to the cloyingly inspirational, and a good deal of it challenges credulity. For example, Caryl Chessman, awaiting execution at San Quentin, is portrayed as an intellectual who speaks in finely wrought sentences as he discourses about crime prevention, citing Albert Camus ("What a writer!"). Oh, what a mess...