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• He was crawling, pushing on his hands and knees, toward that pain-wracked, agonized, hundred-pound lump of meat. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
• "With more than 500,000 residents, this crime-wracked area demands the same moderately high cost of living as Portland with a third of the job growth and nearly three times the unemployment," Forbes stated.
• Despite international condemnation and the high financial costs to a poverty-wracked nation, North Korea is not likely to give up on its missile or space ambitions, analysts say.
• Hijackings off East Africa are a cause of growing international concern, spurring a number of international navies to patrol the pirate-wracked Gulf of Aden. —  CNN.com
• "We believe an international consensus to pursue greater military contribution" is key to addressing security concerns in the war-wracked country, said Foreign Minister Smith after the meeting. —  Channel NewsAsia Front Page News

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