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When they’re threatened, the valve between the chambers opens and the substances combine in a violent chemical reaction that sends a corrosive spray shooting out of the glands, passing through a hardened chamber that protects the beetle’s internal tissues.
Sixty-five million years ago, there was a sudden, violent change to the environment.
I do it in the hopes that perhaps someone someday who is compelled to use violence may hear my story and realize that there is a better way, that although I had been subjected to this violent, intolerant ideology, that I did not become fanaticized.
Some on the right think this because they view Muslim culture as inherently violent, and some on the left imagine this because they view Muslim violence, fundamentalist violence, solely as a product of legitimate grievances.
Places became safer because those inmates who were most violent or disruptive could now be isolated.
My next assignment was to one of the state's deep-end prisons where some of our more violent or disruptive inmates are housed.
So I took that question back to the deep end, where some of our most violent offenders are housed.
Bad people are those who plot terrorist attacks or who engage in violent criminality and therefore have reasons to want to hide what they're doing, have reasons to care about their privacy.
This is a conclusion that we should have all kinds of reasons for avoiding, the most important of which is that when you say, "somebody who is doing bad things," you probably mean things like plotting a terrorist attack or engaging in violent criminality, a much narrower conception of what people who wield power mean when they say, "doing bad things."
But inside the mound was indeed evidence for a city that had thrived during the Bronze Age, with charred stone, broken arrowheads, and damaged human skeletons suggesting a violent end.
Latin America has nine percent of the world's population, but 25 percent of its global violent deaths.
They emerged over the years when immigrants from the countryside came to the cities looking for work, like cities within the cities, known for problems like crime, poverty, and the violent drug war between police and the drug gangs.
We can cut violent deaths around the world by 50 percent in the next three decades.
Today, it's 21 million people, and apart from accounting for three quarters of Pakistan's GDP, it's also one of the most violent cities in South Asia.
A wonderful example of this is coming from El Salvador and Los Angeles, where the mayors in San Salvador and Los Angeles are collaborating on getting ex-gang members to work with current gang members, offering tutoring, education, and in the process are helping incubate cease-fires and truces, and we've seen homicide rates go down in San Salvador, once the world's most violent city, by 50 percent.
Did you know that between one and two percent of street addresses in any fragile city can predict up to 99 percent of violent crime?
Her first memories are of her family fleeing violent riots orchestrated by the ruling political party.
This project redefined the struggle for human rights in the occupied territories, and we managed to reduce the number of violent attacks in the West Bank.
When I made these pictures, I believed that I was documenting the end of violent events in Ukraine.
TG: Yeah, I think that now there are lots of examples of folk who are doing amazing work, but those methods are sometimes like, when the media is constantly saying that only violent things happen in a place, then based on your skill set and the particular context, what are the things that you can do in your neighborhood to kind of fight some of that?
It turns out that you can give all manner of goods and services to the poor, but if you don't restrain the hands of the violent bullies from taking it all away, you're going to be very disappointed in the long-term impact of your efforts.
So this is the place where some of the largest, the most violent storms in the world send huge waves smashing into the coastline.
It came as a part of my participation in a public safety crime reduction strategy that saw a 79 percent reduction in violent crime over an eight-year period in a major city.
You probably think about a young girl or woman, who's been brutally forced into prostitution by a violent pimp.
My goal is to better understand these violent actors and to study ways to encourage transition from violent engagement to nonviolent confrontation.
Take the Lebanese Hezbollah, known for its violent confrontation against Israel.
Now, this is a really complex picture, yet in the West, when we look at armed groups, we only think of the violent side.
They rise because they fill a gap left by the government, and they emerge to be both armed and political, engage in violent struggle and provide governance.
Perhaps the universe existed before the bang, and the bang was just a violent event in a pre-existing universe.
I want them to write about how to achieve peace in a violent world."
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