Word: trap
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Biographer Tad Szulc calls Cuban President Fidel Castro a "master at the game of letting his enemies trap themselves." And the aging dictator believes he has his archenemies, Miami's Cuban exiles, right where he wants them in the custody battle over six-year-old Elian Gonzalez. Ever since Elian was rescued from the Atlantic last Thanksgiving and handed to relatives in Miami--who refuse to send him back to his father in communist Cuba--the exiles have dared Castro to let the dad, Juan Miguel Gonzalez, come to Miami to get the boy himself. Their bet was that Castro...
...shiny white surface that bounces sunlight out to space. Indeed, one reason the earth has not yet warmed up as much as many anticipated may be due to the tug-of-war between industrial aerosols like sulfuric acid (which reflect heat) and greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (which trap it). Ironically, then, the cost of reducing one kind of pollution may come at the price of intensifying the effects of the other...
...Burch Center director Sharon Kahin will take visitors to camps once inhabited by Bunyanesque Scandinavian immigrants who hand-hewed ties with razor-sharp precision. The area is also the home of the Mountain Shoshoni, and archaeologist Larry Loendorf will lead hikes to the wooden structures they built to trap the bighorn sheep that were the staple of their diet, and to the site of giant petroglyphs used in their religious rites...
...fled. He set off on foot for the village of Zaza, a few miles away, on a hunch she would be there with her two brothers. She wasn't, but a large number of Serb militiamen were. Thugs in balaclavas surrounded the village in three rings, moving inward to trap the inhabitants. Knowing they were targets, Kadriu and a few other men tried to escape. They managed to pass the two inner cordons undetected...
...result, Shumsky requested at Friday's meeting that the doors in those Houses that can trap students in courtyards after 1 a.m. be accessible to students 24 hours...