Word: aid
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...warlords and chieftains delivered big blocks of votes. If anything, he will be even more indebted to them. And he is unlikely to have forgotten his repeated humiliation by U.S. officials. That's not to say Karzai will be outright hostile to the U.S. He needs American troops and aid. "What other recourse does he have - he has no other allies," says Ashley Tellis, a South Asia expert at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. "If the U.S. checks out, Karzai doesn't survive...
Slurry is dyed bright red to aid in visibility and help tanker pilots drop a seamless line of retardant. "Basically, they're trying to box in the fire," says Janet Upton of the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire), which is helping to battle the giant Station fire near Los Angeles. Another advantage of slurry is that unlike water, fertilizer doesn't evaporate. (It offers still another bonus for farmers, who have requested that unused slurry be dropped onto their fields as aircraft make their way home.) (Read a 1977 essay: "What Ever Happened to California...
...seen the highest level of civilian deaths since the Taliban was routed out of power in 2002. As uncertainty surrounds the final outcome of the presidential vote, fraught with low turnout and mounting accusations of election fraud, Afghan civilians are at a greater risk than ever of violent attacks, aid officials warn. "With the outcome of voting in Afghanistan unclear, the danger and insecurity facing millions of Afghans continues and in fact is higher now than ever," says Sam Zarifi, Amnesty International's Asia-Pacific director. "Antigovernment groups, including the Taliban, have demonstrated a systematic contempt for the safety...
Mountains were never enough for French stuntman Alain Robert, who conquered so many of them in his teens that he turned his attention to skyscrapers. Now 47, Robert has climbed some of the tallest buildings in the world, typically without the aid of safety equipment. On Sept. 1, armed with nothing but the chalk on his hands and some good climbing shoes, the "French Spiderman" added the 88-story Petronas Towers in Kuala Lumpur to his impressive list - which now totals more than 70 - of skyscrapers scaled. It was Robert's third attempt at climbing the building, a feat known...
...bloodshed persists despite a new campaign by the current Democrat-led government to win the hearts and minds of Thailand's Muslim population through community-led initiatives and development aid. In fact, if the rate of violence in the first eight months of 2009 continues through December, this year will be bloodier than 2008. In June, unidentified gunmen sprayed a mosque with bullets, killing 12 people, while late last month a 50-kg car bomb detonated at a packed restaurant, wounding some 50 bystanders. (Read "Anatomy of a Forgotten Conflict...