Word: containment
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Fighting poverty in Yemen is no easy task. Education levels are abysmal, and the country is awash in guns. It also struggles with a severe water shortage, in large part because of the national addiction to khat, a shrub whose young leaves contain a compound with effects similar to those of amphetamines. The top estimate is that no less than 90% of men in Yemen and 25% of women chew the leaves, storing a wad in one cheek as it slowly breaks down and enters the bloodstream. Astonishingly, most of the country's arable land is devoted to the plant...
...skeptics’ rationale speaks to conflicting realities of life in the 02138. This campus purports to contain some of the most intellectually curious students in the world. However, many spend countless hours attempting to escape from schoolwork—whether by roaming Lamont aimlessly, Facebook-stalking potential love interests, or downing scorpion bowls at the Kong. When, five hours before the deadline, it’s impossible to avoid that paper any longer, the finished product often turns out less than inspired. What happened to the hunger for learning that so many of us claimed to possess in college...
...private insurers for covering the uninsured. Will he include the plan, as the HELP Committee bill did, inviting a certain effort to strike it out of the bill by amendment on the floor? Or will he offer a bill similar to the Finance Committee's, which does not contain the public option, and see an effort to add it on the floor? "Reid's not tipping his hand," says one of his aides. (Read "Health Reform's Public Option: Down...
...Crimson can keep the penalties to a minimum this weekend, then Harvard should be able to contain the Mountain Hawks. But if not, the Crimson could afford Lehigh its first win of the 2009 campaign...
Scofield said that the course was a nice alternative to the 80-person classes typical of the first year of law school, as reading groups contain only ten to twelve students and are not taken for a grade. David M. Zucker, a first-year from Natick, Mass., cited the advantage of being able “to know a professor on a personal level...