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VOCABULARY Definitions:
Vocabulary in the News:
[emphasis added]
jihad
<Google>,
mujahedeen
<Google>
-
"...
while Americans may understand "jihad" to mean "holy war," it is
in fact a broader Islamic concept of the struggle to do good, says the
guidance prepared for diplomats and other officials tasked with explaining
the war on terror to the public. Similarly, "mujahedeen," which
means those engaged in jihad, must be seen in its broader context." ...
"U.S. [United States] officials may be "unintentionally portraying terrorists,
who lack moral and religious legitimacy, as brave fighters, legitimate
soldiers or spokesmen for ordinary Muslims," says a Homeland Security report.
It's entitled "Terminology to Define the Terrorists: Recommendations from
American Muslims."" ... ""Regarding 'jihad,' even if it is accurate to
reference the term, it may not be strategic because it glamorizes terrorism,
imbues terrorists with religious authority they do not have and damages
relations with Muslims around the world," the report says."
-
- 20080424
-  Military
-  Terrorism
-  Language
-  US
-  International
-  Politics
- Religious
- Vocabulary
- "'Jihadist'
booted from government lexicon." ... "Don't call
them jihadists any more." ... "And don't call al-Qaida a movement." ...
"Federal agencies, including the State Department, the Department of Homeland
Security and the National Counter Terrorism Center, are telling their people
not to describe Islamic extremists as "jihadists" or "mujahedeen," according
to documents obtained by The Associated Press. Lingo like "Islamo-fascism"
is out, too." ... "The reason: Such words may actually boost support for
radicals among Arab and Muslim audiences by giving them a veneer of religious
credibility or by causing offense to moderates." ... "Language is critical
in the war on terror, says another document, an internal "official use
only" memorandum circulating through Washington entitled "Words that Work
and Words that Don't: A Guide for Counterterrorism Communication."" ...
"The memo, originally prepared in March by the Extremist Messaging Branch
at the National Counter Terrorism Center, was approved for diplomatic use
this week by the State Department, which plans to distribute a version
to all U.S. embassies, officials said." ... ""It's not what you say but
what they hear," the memo says in bold italic lettering, listing 14 points
about how to better present the war on terrorism." -By
Matthew Lee -AP
via -SeattleTimes
Podcast
<Google>
-
""Podcast,"
defined as "a digital recording of a radio broadcast or similar program,
made available on the Internet for downloading to a personal audio player,"
will be added to the next edition of the New Oxford American Dictionary."
... "The word originated as a play on the word "broadcast" using the name
of Apple's popular handheld digital music player, the iPod."
Janjaweed
<Google>
-
"The
word [Janjaweed], an Arabic colloquialism, means "a man with a gun
on a horse." Janjaweed militiamen are primarily members of nomadic "Arab"
tribes who've long been at odds with Darfur's settled "African" farmers,
who are darker-skinned. (The labels Arab and African are rather misleading,
given the complexity of the region's ethnic history. For simplicity's sake,
Explainer will stick with these inelegant terms.) Until last year, the
conflicts were mostly over Darfur's scarce water and land resources—desertification
has been a serious problem, so grazing areas and wells are at a premium.
In fact, the term "Janjaweed" has for years been synonymous with bandit,
as these horse- or camel-borne fighters were known to swoop in on non-Arab
farms to steal cattle." ... "Both victims and international observers allege
that the Janjaweed are no longer the scrappy militias of yore, but rather
well-equipped fighting forces that enjoy the overt assistance of the Sudanese
government."
pococurante
<Google>
<M-W>
-
"A
13-year-old eighth-grader from Dallas nailed "pococurante" to win
the 76th Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee on Thursday." ... "It was
Sai Gunturi's fourth time in the competition." ... ""I studied it," a beaming
Sai said of the word after winning the contest, $12,000 and other prizes.
"That's why I was kind of laughing." The word means indifferent or nonchalant."
 Desalination
-
"The
basic process of desalination is not new. Salt water is pumped through
filters under high pressure, squeezing out minerals. Israel and Kuwait
have relied on desalination for decades, as have military vessels and cruise
ships." ... "Since the late 1980s, the price of taking salt out of sea
water has dropped from nearly $2,000 an acre-foot to $800 per acre-foot,
said Walter Winrow, vice president of Poseidon Resources."
-
- 20030114
- 
- "Calif.
Studies Making Sea Water Drinkable." ... "For the
most part, desalination has long been prohibitively expensive as a source
of drinking water in California. But rising demand, dwindling supply, and
new technology that makes it cheaper to take the salt out of sea water
are changing the economics of desalination."
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
arrogate, arrogating, arrogated <M-W>
-
"By
attacking Iraq without UN endorsement, Washington would be arrogating
to itself the right to decide what constitutes a threat to world peace,
and what to do about it. That would be a significant break from international
norms."
-
- 20020912
-
- 
- "Iraq
attack could alter world rules: Bush takes
his case for 'regime change' to the UN General Assembly." ... "Advocating
preemptive military action against Baghdad before it uses its alleged chemical,
biological, or nuclear weapons, Mr. Bush is challenging United Nations
rules on sovereignty and the acceptable use of force that have underpinned
global relations for three generations." -CSMonitor/buy
"resonance" - Google: <sonar
resonance>
-
"Naomi Rose, a marine mammal scientist with the Humane Society, said scientists
are concerned that sounds as intense as those expected to come from the
Navy's sonar could deafen animals, give them the bends or cause "resonance"
-- the ability of sound to rip body tissues much like an opera singer can
shatter glass."
-
20020807
"Environmentalists
sue in San Francisco to block Navy sonar." ... "In
July, the fisheries service, a division of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Association, gave the Navy a five-year exemption from the Marine Mammal
Protection Act. That allowed the Navy to use Surveillance Towed Array Sensor
System Low Frequency Active sonar, or SURTASS LFA." -By
Colleen Valles -AP
via -SFGate.com
WEP <Google>
- Wired Equivalent Privacy
"whackers"
- wireless hackers -Google:
<whackers
wireless>
-
Wireless
"equipment is typically shipped with its security software—known as WEP,
or Wired Equivalent Privacy—turned off. Using WEP means users have to fire
up a browser, log onto a wireless access point and choose security keys."
... "But even when WEP is turned on, it's no match for the toughest wireless
hackers, or "whackers." WEP can be "broken" by anyone with a wireless
laptop, a widely available encryption-buster program and enough time."
(1,
2,
3,
4,
5,
6,
7)
-By Gary A. Bolles -CIOinsight
"medireview" <Google>
is not a word but a by-product of filtering software that changes "eval"
to "review" in HTML e-mail messages as a security measure to stop cross-site
scripting.
cross-site
scripting <Google>
-
Yahoo's
"security filter automatically deletes web code that could be used by hackers
and replaces it with innocuous words. For example, "eval" is converted
to "review", "mocha" is changed into "espresso" and "expression" replaced
with "statement". The substitutions are made even if the phrase appears
within a word." ... "The UK internet site NTK recently found that 640 different
web sites contain the word "medireview", in place of "medieval"."
... "Hiding code in email written in HTML or a web page is called cross-site
scripting, and was first identified in 1997."
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A-Z Definitions
define:
aliteracy
desalination
gerontocracy
Intertopia
nutrigenomics
pre-implantation
genetic diagnosis
wakaresaseya
war driving
Words on my
mind ;-)
putative
ASCII (American Standard Code for Information
Interchange)
donnybrook <M-W>
ephemera <M-W>
lexicon
Schengen
adjuvant
schema
cest la vie
schadenfreude
innumeracy
rein / reign
M-W is the Merriam Webster dictionary
m-w.com
FindLaw
uses the 1996 "Merriam Webster's Dictionary of Law"
dictionary. lp.findlaw.com
Google Search:
<Vocabulary
News>
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20020715 
- "Getting
Past the Veil: The Taliban Is Gone, But Good
Times Haven’t Yet Come for Afghan Women." ... "About nine months after
the plight of Afghan women became the cause celébrè of heads
of state and first ladies around the world, the status of Afghan women
has theoretically made dramatic strides." ... "But critics argue that at
a practical level, they can at best be called modest transformations."
-By
Leela Jacinto -ABCNEWS.com
20020701
"Scientists
estimate 30 billion Earths."
-By Dr. David Whitehouse -BBC
/News
