Word: disappeared
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...Iraq today, when your relatives disappear, you head first not to the police but to the hospitals and morgues. After a day's searching, Mohammed found the bodies of his cousins in the city's main morgue. "They had been brutally tortured, cut and burned," he says. "Even their genitals had been mangled." The bodies were buried the next day in the family hometown of Fallujah. Despite a daytime curfew, Mohammed says, many neighboring Shi'ites attended the funeral. "Some of them were very helpful. They helped us make all the arrangements," he says, his voice breaking. Even...
...washing away of coastal Louisiana. The state's land loss now totals 1,900 sq. mi. That land once protected the entire region from hurricanes by acting as a sponge to soak up storm surges. If nothing is done, in the foreseeable future an additional 700 sq. mi. will disappear, putting at risk port facilities and all the energy-producing infrastructure in the Gulf...
...attacks shook the nation's confidence and scrambled the assumptions Americans had about their place in the world. Since then, Washington - and by that I mean the actions of both parties - has done little at home or abroad to re-instill that confidence. Americans have seen a budget surplus disappear and two wars launched, all while they have had to withstand longer lines at airports and higher prices for gasoline. All these changes, great and small, have masked the fact that 9/11 has changed Americans' instincts, too. And so even if it can be rationally defended, a deal that would...
...there are other new costs, including credit-card fees and IT equipment. EMI, for example, has invested over $130 million in technology to manage digital sales. And CD sales continue to plummet. Globally, retail sales sank about 8% last year, to just below $31 billion. Illegal downloading has not disappeared. ifpi says 885 million music files are available online for illegal downloading. In Britain and Germany, Europe's two biggest markets, 6% of Internet users buy legal music online, while 5% engage in illegal file sharing. But illegal downloads are double the rate of legal ones in France, Sweden...
...what did the U.S. learn? What plots were foiled, what leads were obtained, what links were unveiled as a result of these warrantless searches? If the government can show that the snooping kept Americans safe and sound, this controversy will disappear quickly. But it hasn't taken that approach-yet. The administration so far responds to every inquiry about how the new snooping works-and how well it works-with a firm refusal to get into what it calls "operational details." The President tried to argue the facts a bit today, suggesting almost obliquely that his administration's no-quarter...