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...that the millions more who have fled afoot, leaving cities and towns before the anticipated U.S. attack, and Afghanistan is in the throes of a humanitarian crisis that could be more devastating than the air strikes to come. Already, more than 2 million refugees are in Pakistan, and a million more are poised to flood in. Some 500,000 may descend on Iran and the Central Asian republics...
...just aren't having children because they know it is impossible to have a kid and to work. As a society we are just not able to organize life to make childbearing a realistic option and that would be a very sad state of affairs." Nevertheless, there are moves afoot in several countries to ease the burden on parents. In Germany, children of single parents take priority on kindergarten waiting lists and parents who need child care receive an annual allowance of $1,418. In France, Prime Minister Lionel Jospin recently announced a plan to set aside $130 million...
Karadzic seems to feel something is afoot. According to reports in Pale, he recently changed his bodyguard; the detail is now believed to consist of about a dozen hard-core paramilitaries, or no more than can travel in three vehicles. NATO officials say Karadzic is moving around regularly. He travels in and out of the Serb Republic and across to neighboring Montenegro, where he was born and which can be reached by trails across the mountains...
...There's no national movement afoot now to solve the problems," Brazile says, criticizing President Bush for not including funds for election reform in his recently released budget. "Congress and the Bush Administration should provide matching grants to states to update their systems, as well as grants to train and recruit Election Day workers...
KANGAROOS With disease afoot, marsupial-meat sales leap 20%. Tastes like chicken--with a kick