From the relative peace and tranquility of their cities, which are noisy with construction, not bombs, Kurds look west for future investment.
But the rulers of Bahrain and Yemen get a stern ticking off when their security forces kill demonstrators, not bombs aimed at their homes.
That they put their efforts into winning seats in last week's election further suggests Sunni leaders have come to accept that the way forward is through the ballot box, not bombs.
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In Belgrade, most Serbs fear not the bombs themselves so much as the mayhem and violence they believe could follow: looting, attacks on those associated with foreign governments or media, even a slide into anarchy.
Italy has some 2, 500 troops in the region and 42 aircraft, though they have not actually dropped bombs.
It is easy to say that terrorists should not obtain nuclear bombs, and the meeting produced no binding accords.
That facade has been shattered in recent weeks, not by bullet or bombs, but through padlocks and keys.
People in Colombo, for whom the war is a rather distant affair, may not have heard any bombs lately.
Mr. SHADID: The Israeli officials have made the point that cluster bombs are not banned under international law, which is correct.
Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-California, criticized the logic behind the move, arguing that threats posed by bombs do not mean knives aren't dangerous.
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Second, although Russian strategic warheads are well-guarded, large numbers of small tactical nuclear warheads and huge amounts of fissionable material usable for bombs are not, and these create a serious stockpile security problem.
The tension this year goes well beyond such symbolic spats: Mr Ahmadinejad's Iran is in defiance of multiple Security Council resolutions calling on it to cease uranium enrichment and other nuclear activities until it can convince the world it is not aiming at making bombs.
They're not wounded by bullets or bombs, but they're the victims of this war nevertheless.
Cluster bombs themselves are not banned under international agreement.
Patients may not want to know they are ticking time bombs if good treatments aren't yet available.
Like his predecessors, Mr Bush is not promising to use America's nuclear bombs against them, just refusing to rule it out.
In a speech at West Point, he argued that the cold-war doctrines of containment and deterrence could not work against terrorists or dictators with nuclear bombs.
Had Ruhwedel not elected to end his college career at UMass Lowell to sign with Buffalo last weekend, he would have likely spent Monday with his friends watching the marathon not far from the finish line where two bombs exploded.
As with nuclear bombs, the existence of cyber-weapons does not in itself mean they are about to be used.
Police do not know whether suicide bombers carried out the attacks or whether bombs had been left in packages on the Underground or in buses, according to Brian Paddick, Metropolitan Police deputy assistant commissioner.
It is not isolationist to emphasize the human cost at the other end of American bombs.
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The FBI did not say whether he was using his cellphone to detonate one or both of the bombs or whether he was talking to someone.
He said that when the bombs went off, the university gates were closed, and campus security would not open them.
But the tragedy is not that dishonest borrowers and brokers signed off on liar-loans, greedy bankers packaged time bombs, yield hungry speculators bet on AAA-rated trash or that pandering politicians let taxpayers guarantee mortgages in the first place.
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