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...Kabul, and the reality of the country's blight becomes overwhelming. Sixty percent of the country is still without electricity, 80% without potable water. Unemployment hovers around 40%. The absence of credible police and consistent government services in rural areas has created vacuums that are being filled by an array of antigovernment forces: Islamists in the south, '80s-era warlords in the west and drug runners in the north. Meanwhile, the fighting between coalition troops and the Taliban has halted new reconstruction projects and undermined the impact of finished ones. Only half the aid pledged to the country since...
...they formed from and that they eventually destroyed. The hydrogen atoms emitted radiation too, in the form of radio waves, and several competing projects in various stages of completion in India, China, the Netherlands and Australia are being designed to see them. The last, known as the Mileura Widefield Array, is considered the most promising because its 500 separate antennas will be located on a remote cattle station in western Australia, far from any interference from earthly radio broadcasts. "The South Pole would be good too," says Jacqueline Hewitt, director of the Institute for Astrophysics and Space Research at M.I.T...
Concerns over avian flu have given the birds of Asia bad press of late. But there's ample opportunity to enjoy the region's dazzling array of 1,900 bird species at a safe distance. Asia boasts plenty of sites in urban areas, or within striking distance of major cities, that are home to many species of colorful birds. When you're done with meetings or can't face[an error occurred while processing this directive] another day of shopping, fit a long lens on your camera and go grab a glimpse of some of these feathered assets...
Marvel soon replicated that model with hundreds of its heroes, now bringing in nearly $230 million annually from more than 500 licensing partners. Today the Marvel brand adorns everything from toys, games and apparel to hotels and theme parks. "Marvel has the best array of characters of any licensor in the business," says Brian Goldner, president of Hasbro's U.S. toy division, whose company in January guaranteed Marvel at least $205 million for its toy licenses over the next five years...
...Stan Rosenfield, whose clients include George Clooney, says that from now on, "TMZ is going to be a major player. Harvey Levin and his staff are getting more stories than the others." Among the vast array of blogs and websites devoted to celebrity news, Rosenfield says TMZ is one that he and his colleagues will "have to learn to deal with like any other form of communication now." Mintz has noticed that the scope of TMZ's reach has jumped beyond the Internet. "I've seen video clips used on network affiliates and in the body of syndicated television entertainment...