Word: coldness
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2000
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...cold war brought murderous burdens that the U.N. has been unable to handle. U.N. troops are routinely asked to plunge into chaos--Sierra Leone, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Timor. Annan isn't opposed to these missions. He has the courage to order the U.N. in wherever it is needed. But he has nightmares about trying to contain some of the world's most evil men with the resources of a local sheriff's department. He has tried that before: Rwanda, where 800,000 Tutsi were slaughtered by rival Hutu tribesmen; Srebrenica, Bosnia, where 8,000 Muslims were killed...
...time when countries will be eager to have their troops serve. His sales pitch is simple: U.N. operations are the best preview of the kinds of battles countries are likely to face in the future, conflicts that are less state vs. state and more state vs. maniac. "During the cold war, conflicts were neater," he explains. "You had client states [that] could be controlled. Here you are dealing with warlords who don't understand the outside world and don't care. Unless we are prepared to counter force with force, there is very little we can do. The problem...
Whatever the direct cause of the disaster, the Kursk was doomed as much by underfunding, insufficient training and incompetent military management as by collision or high explosives. Since the end of the cold war, the Russian navy has declined from 613 ships of all types to around 95 today, a drop of 84%, compared with a shrinkage of around 40% for Western navies. Of the few ships remaining in the Russian inventory, only about 10% are considered by Western experts to be fit to put to sea. One reason is that the bulk of Russia's dwindling defense budget goes...
...upper echelons. Last, he had to be in therapy--not just any form of therapy, mind you, but classical Freudian therapy. I was flummoxed. Because I liked the woman, I set to work remaking myself according to her outline, but midway through my self-improvement drive, she dropped me cold. I was trying too hard, she said. My question to her was, Why would any man slave for riches, cultivate snobbish friends and lie down twice a week on a shrink's couch except to impress some woman? She couldn't answer this...
...just how well Scott, a paramedic, is doing. Within three months of the surgery, he went public with his new hand, gripping a baseball with the aid of a brace and flinging a first pitch at a Philadelphia Phillies game. Within eight months, he could distinguish between hot and cold, a sure sign that the nerves were regenerating. Today, thanks to hours of grueling physical therapy, he is capable of more challenging tasks like driving a car, tying shoelaces and, most important, lifting his kids. Though such skills as picking up a dime and writing are still out of reach...