Word: scanted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...world with scant belief in mythology or true religion, it is not surprising that the art of medicine is suffering. Our materialistic view of the world makes our bodies seem like something mechanical. So we go to the doctor the same way we take our car in for repairs. No wonder we feel so empty. ROBERTO TAKAOKA Sao Paulo, Brazil...
None of this is likely to end anytime soon. Professional peacemakers such as the U.N.'s put scant effort into ratcheting down the war; it is perceived as too complicated, too Islamic, too out of the way. The vacuum allows regional powers--Pakistan, Russia, Iran, Saudi Arabia and India--to back one side or another, prolonging the conflict as they seek to extend their influence. Such meddling infuriates Afghans, but some reserve a special anger for America. They believe the U.S. has turned its back on the country it once supported, indifferent to its suffering. "Those friends who armed...
Unfortunately, except as an example to the world, a U.S. ban will have scant practical effect. The Geneva conference offered little hope. Because of opposition by countries like Russia and China, which have stockpiled tens of millions of mines, the conference stopped well short of calling for an outright prohibition. "The Chinese have told us flat out that they'll give up nukes before they give up antipersonnel mines," says a senior State Department negotiator. But the conference did establish new guidelines, under which freshly laid mines must contain enough metal to be detected and would eventually self-destruct. There...
...took nearly two years for the hit rock musical Rent to get from workshop to Broadway, but its sassy, sexy downtown look will be available retail this week--a scant nine days after its Broadway opening night--when Bloomingdale's opens a Rent boutique in Manhattan...
With nine players, 'Da Noise might be called a boutique musical. What story there is recounts the history of black experience in America. At best this is an episodic enterprise with little or no connection between the vignettes, some of which are blazingly theatrical, others a scant excuse for more hoofing...