1 | At home, since Gabon was his, he cosseted it one moment and ravaged it the next. | |
2 | And in countries ravaged by violence -- from Haiti to Congo to East Timor -- we will work with the U.N. and other partners to support an enduring peace. | |
3 | The bald, chemo-ravaged head - the public got used to that pretty quickly, just as we once got used to thinking of her as "the face of racism" or "the laughable image of illiteracy". | |
4 | That may already be happening in Canada, where recent warm winters have unleashed a plague of bark beetles, and in Australia, whose forests have been devastated by drought and forest fires. | |
5 | Despite the ravages of AIDS and a plethora of other diseases Africa' s populations continue to outstrip the carry capacity of the continental resource base. |