Word: vortex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...countless others to live their lives differently, a young man in front of a column of tanks near Tiananmen Square. "Five hundred years from now, it won't be Hitler we remember," says theologian Martin Marty. "Hitler may have set the century's agenda; he was a sort of vortex of negative energy that sucked everything else in. But I think God takes fallible human beings like Roosevelt or Churchill and carves them for his purposes. In five centuries, we'll look back and say the story of the century was not Hitler or Stalin; it was the survival...
...whirling whitewater ride where you will get soaked. (The ride guides will tell you it's practically illegal to remove your footwear. Do it anyway and save yourself a day's walk in soggy sneakers.) You also get sprayed in the elaborate Sinbad stunt show, in the swirling vortex that leads you to the battle of the gods in Poseidon's Fury, and on the One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish kiddie ride. Some days, of course, it'll just rain...
...came because I wanted it to live up to its own history...and I wanted very much to shape the field of conflict resolution," Cobb said. "To do that, you have to come to the middle of the vortex, and this has been the middle of the vortex for a long time...
...palpable. Where once she was silent and confused, she is direct and focused. This is all the more remarkable since, as she calmly informs Cardis, last October she underwent surgery for breast cancer. In the days before her forgiveness sessions, such a setback would have sent her into a vortex of helpless rage, and she admits, "At first I wanted to blame someone." That passed, however. The cancer has apparently not spread, and she values her new composure. "I can buy another breast," she explains. "I can't buy another life...
There is relief because the global meltdown that many feared a year ago has not materialized. "We got very close to the edge of a financial crisis we haven't seen since the 1930s, which had the potential of pulling into that vortex the financial institutions and markets of the core economies," says Kenneth Courtis of Deutsche Bank Group in Tokyo. "The hole was so big, you couldn't see the bottom." But the ho-hum reaction of world markets to Brazil's currency collapse shows, says Courtis, "that the emerging-markets crisis at least in this virulent first phase...