Word: centralization
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...hospitality they have extended to the notorious Osama Bin Laden. Afghanistan has become by far the leading producer of the heroin sold in Europe. Despite the Koranic prohibitions against drug use the Taliban has embraced the trade, and taxes on its production keeps their government solvent. Many of the Central Asian republics of the former U.S.S.R. rightly fear that the Taliban will try to spread its influence into their Muslim populations...
...murder was the second murder in Cambridge in 1999. On Sept. 18, a 30-year-old Dorchester man was shot and killed outside the Hi-Fi Pizza store near Central Square following an argument with the occupants of a Jeep...
...landslide electoral victory. With 84 percent of the vote counted Tuesday, a center-left alliance headed by former communist Ivica Racan holds an overwhelming lead over Tudjman's nationalist party. "Croatians want to end the economic and political isolation that Tudjman's policies brought on Croatia," says TIME Central Europe bureau reporter Dejan Anastasijevic. "The opposition plans to liberalize the economy and attract investment, as well as make Croatia more firmly part of Europe...
...course, accounting for the Mexican boy in South Central Los Angeles who lies on his bed staring up at paint chips on his ceiling; or for the pale girl gazing out a high-floor window in one of those blazing office towers at a pale boy in the tower opposite, gazing back; or for the bearded hermit crouching near the statue of a general on horseback in a city park and talking on a cell phone that does not exist...
...Saharan Africa 4,000,000 South & Southeast Asia 1,200,000 East Asia & Pacific 200,000 Latin America 160,000 Eastern Europe & Central Asia 80,000 Caribbean 45,000 North America 44,000 Western Europe 30,000 North Africa & Middle East 19,000 Australia & New Zealand 600 Total 5.8 million...