Word: fields
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...globalized world where much that was exotic seems increasingly like one giant 7-11 franchise. "That's just an illusion," Theroux claims, "because the customs, obligations, pieties that govern the people in that 7-11 can still be completely different." He still believes there's a wide field to be discovered in "dangerous places, war zones ridden with crime or plagues or terror." And he insists "the travel book should give the lie to those who think they can find everything on the Internet." It provides, in Theroux's words, "a future data base of the textures, the smell...
...found a very strong correlation between income equality and societal well-being. Why had no one spotted it before? KP: We and other researchers had noticed this trend. But the field was splintered - people looked at only health, or only crime. We've brought it together. Treating the 50 United States as separate countries and then comparing them really strengthened the evidence...
...Observers warn that poverty and unemployment are prime recruitment factors for al-Qaeda, something they say the U.S. government and other foreign powers should have done more to address. "If you're going to carry out [an attack] like this, you have to have done a great deal of field work, where you've sort of undermined al-Qaeda through development and aid so that when something like this happens, al-Qaeda can't easily replace the individuals that it has lost," says Johnsen. "But if you don't take those steps then the pool of recruits just starts...
Wearing a green field cap and military dog tags, 12-year-old Victor steadies a Soviet-made SAM-7 missile launcher on his tiny shoulder, squinting through the crosshairs at the children screaming dizzily on the nearby Tilt-a-Whirl ride. Even without the missile, the SAM-7 launcher is as tall as Victor and doesn't weight much less. But he's having too much fun to be burdened by the weapon's cumbersome dimensions...
...insurgency's leaders are under the most pressure from their rank-and-file members to deliver a final settlement. Now, Nigeria's notoriously corrupt bureaucrats are in charge of the peace process, and one rebel leader says that many are reverting to type. "They offered me an oil field to call off my boys," says the leader. "These guys aren't sincere. All they care about is getting oil production back up. They think they can just buy us off." (Read "'Nigeria's Taliban': How Big a Threat...