Word: controller
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Over the past year such violent Mohawk vs. Mohawk clashes have become commonplace on the 28,000-acre St. Regis reservation, as a bitter quarrel over lucrative casino operations has escalated into a virtual civil war. Heavily armed pro- and antigambling factions have battled for control of the main road through the reservation, which straddles the border between upstate New York and Canada's Quebec and Ontario provinces. Last week the fighting reached a new and bloody peak: thousands of shots were exchanged in a three-hour gun battle that left two dead. Hundreds of New York State troopers...
...concluded that, like the Genoese and Pisan fleets aiding the Crusaders eight centuries earlier, it would soon sail home in ignorance and frustration. Lebanon and neighboring Syria, Israel, Jordan and Iraq, he argues, are "tribes with flags" rather than nations. Try as big powers might to control them with armies, navies and imported ideologies, the ties of "family, village, tribe and sect" have been much tougher...
...headaches and depression. But on top of all that, people who suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome often have to endure accusations of hypochondria. Now, years after the mysterious CFS gained notoriety as the "yuppie disease," the U.S. Government is finally starting to take it seriously. The Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, which has been receiving about 1,000 calls a month from people who claim to be CFS victims, or from their relatives or doctors, has launched a $1 million "surveillance program" in which 350 physicians will study CFS patients in Reno, Atlanta, Grand Rapids and Wichita...
...most striking trend found in Liu's study is the deterioration of the strong tie between sex and marriage. In the past, young girls were forced into arranged marriages shortly after puberty. Now women are forbidden by law, largely as a means of population control, to marry before the age of 20, and men cannot take a bride until they are at least 22. But relatively few are waiting that long to have sex. Fully 86% of those who answered Liu's survey said they approved of premarital sex. Such liberal attitudes often persist after marriage as well. A surprising...
...their homes in Panama City were destroyed by the U.S. invasion that ousted dictator Manuel Antonio Noriega. True, both House and Senate have approved $420 million for Panama and $300 million for Nicaragua, as part of an omnibus bill increasing spending for projects ranging from space research to grasshopper control. But the aid is below what George Bush wanted and well behind schedule. Bush had called for passage by April...