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...drunk, and seemed unable to read the identification numbers on registration cards. Meanwhile the two only inkpads available for voters to stamp their ballots were drying up. Voters had to return several times to the registration desk in order to moisten their stamp and mark their ballots. Khawaja Khurshid Alam, a polling agent for Musharraf's party, shook his head with disgust. "These are untrained persons, they don't know how to work in polling stations. People come and they wait and they say, 'why are you wasting our time?' so they go home." While accusations of organized election fraud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Pakistan Votes Amid Tension | 2/18/2008 | See Source »

...their bullets. Scores of ordinary citizens die each day because of U.S. folly. I won't shed any tears for the six Americans, since they should have been at home with their families who now mourn them. All my tears and sympathies are for the ordinary, nameless Iraqis. Zameer Alam Khan, Lahore, Pakistan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Inbox | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...their bullets. Scores of ordinary citizens die each day because of U.S. folly. I won't shed any tears for the six Americans, since they should have been at home with their families who now mourn them. All my tears and sympathies are for the ordinary, nameless Iraqis. Zameer Alam Khan, LAHORE PAKISTAN...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Oil's Curse | 6/26/2007 | See Source »

...microbes depend on to copy their genes and reproduce. Adapting in two directions at once slows down the bacteria enough to give the drug time to work. "Mathematically, it becomes much harder for the bacteria to develop resistance to different targets at the same time," says Dr. John Alam, the company's chief medical officer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fighting Drug-Resistant Bugs | 6/7/2007 | See Source »

...years on! What are the future prospects?-Saydul Alam, Swansea, Wales It's exciting to see the growth trajectory and to realize that, for example, Arabic Wikipedia in five years will be as large as the German site today. It's going to be freely available to people who have much more serious problems with accessing information than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions: Jimmy Wales | 3/21/2007 | See Source »

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