Word: helpful
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Santa Anna Project, a student-run organization founded three years ago by Gordon C. McCord '02, hopes to help renovate the place of worship...
...death-penalty cases. More than 85 individuals on Death Row have already been exonerated, a number of whom would have been executed had it not been for the availability of DNA evidence. Yet every day, more biological samples are destroyed that could potentially prove someone's innocence and help convict the guilty party; the bill would provide for the preservation and testing of such evidence in certain cases and needs to be enacted before any more innocent people are sentenced to death...
...appalled by the horrors of World War II, the world's countries agreed to cooperate in pursuit of an international just peace. Since that time, the UN has augmented its mandate and implemented numerous programs to improve literacy, to provide food and sustainable agriculture for all, and to help children escape from poverty and slavery. A global response to something like the Ebola virus can be mounted now, an impossible feat prior to the inception of the United Nations. Yet if the United Nations is ineffectual in preventing the powerful upwelling of enmity that is submerging the Middle East, does...
...explosive material left by the bomb. Those fragments will then undergo field tests to divine their molecular composition. Investigators will be particularly interested in anything they can learn about the bomb's detonator. Since every assailant has a favored method of wiring a bomb, the detonator's construction could help experts zero in on the bomb's provenance...
...tactics. To secure its borders, Israel deployed more heavily armored tanks and troop-carrying vehicles. Apache helicopters, unmanned aerial vehicles and very long-range optics were procured. To protect itself internally, Israel issued its infantrymen plastic bullets and other riot-control gear. Special security forces were organized to help relieve the conventional Israeli units of responsibility for keeping order inside Israel. When confrontation with hostile crowds was unavoidable, Israel used restrictive rules of engagement--and snipers to respond to armed opponents--in an effort to minimize losses and avoid dramatic scenes that could inflame world opinion...