Pakistan did not erupt because Pakistan s elite is focused on modernization.

The secondary stage is imploded by x ray energy from the first stage, called the primary.

Even in Western Europe, which boasts the most rehabilitation oriented penal systems, ghastly scandals periodically erupt.

All of these contradictions are currently exploding in Syria, whose population is suffering a humanitarian catastrophe, while the world stands by, up to now unwilling to intervene.

In the background to this struggle, the conflict between Catholic and Protestant cantons persisted, erupting in further violence at the Battles of Villmergen in 1656 and 1712.

And at that time two years ago I mentioned that we were speculating that these jets might in fact be geysers, and erupting from pockets or chambers of liquid water underneath the surface, but we weren't really sure.

More immediately, if Gazan families are not well fed, the recurrence of cross border violence, if not the eruption of a third intifada, will only be a matter of time.

And I also reported that we'd made this mind blowing discovery this once in a lifetime discovery of towering jets erupting from those fractures at the south pole, consisting of tiny water ice crystals accompanied by water vapor and simple organic compounds like carbon dioxide and methane.

Impossible is trying to connect in this world, trying to hold onto others while things are blowing up around you, knowing that while you're speaking, they aren't just waiting for their turn to talk they hear you.

While the full blown crisis did not erupt until the collapse of Lehman Brothers in September 2008, it was clear by the summer of 2007 that something was very wrong in credit markets, which were starting to behave in all sorts of strange ways.

If terrorist bombs are no longer going off in the Indian state of Assam, it is thanks to the government in Dhaka. Giving Bangladesh legal rights to territory within its own borders is the least India can do to express its gratitude.

Only real aficionados of arcane moves inside the ruling party could be bothered to follow the ups and downs of factional bosses, many of whom were from established political families, and most of whom relied on shady financing. Corruption scandals erupted from time to time, but these, too, were usually part of intra party maneuvers to rein in politicians who got too big for their britches, or who tried to grab power before their time.