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...Senator Phil Gramm, chairman of the U.S.-Mexico Inter-Parliamentary Committee, last week: ''If they do what needs to be done, they won't need our help. If they don't, there isn't enough money to help them.'' According to one American official, the U.S. might provide financial assistance more readily if Mexico provides increased assistance in the war against drugs. As it is, the country now accounts for roughly one-third of all the heroin and marijuana imported into the U.S. Many in Washington believe local Mexican authorities not only assist in the traffic but also appear...
...fruit gardens in 2007, according to Bruce Butterfield of the National Gardener's Association, and that number is expected to increase by several million this year. The waiting list for the USDA's Master Gardener Program, which involves nearly 90,000 volunteers in all 50 states who educate and assist the public with horticulture projects, is getting longer every year, says Bill Hoffman, National Program Leader for Agriculture Homeland Security. Even urban dwellers are returning to the land; in Austin, Texas, for example, the wait for community gardens is three years...
...levee. Worried friends and family are starting to call and e-mail. And I've received a dire-sounding e-mail earlier in the day from the disaster volunteer center set up at the United Way office just north of downtown: "There is an URGENT need for volunteers to assist in the sand bagging effort. Volunteers are asked to report... throughout the day for deployment...
...since those unforgettable six months in 1989 when the known world changed, most Europeans - and most European political leaders - have been self-absorbed in refining their own system of prosperity. That process, to be sure, has benefited the outside world; it has, for example, enabled the European Union to assist the transition to market democracy of former Soviet satellites in Eastern and Central Europe. But it is surely time for European leaders and thinkers to discuss something a little more expansive than that. Out of the challenges, and indeed failures, of the Bush Administration, a lively discourse on the nature...
...Bush Administration, which has held some of the defendants for five years of interrogation and torture at secret locations, the trial offers a timely opportunity to remind Americans of the terrorist threat. Showcasing sensational evidence of the 9/11 conspiracy will not only assist the trial and possible execution of its alleged perpetrators, it will bolster the Administration's approach to its continuing "global war on terror." Although few observers expect the latest court deadline to be met, prosecutors say they will be ready to start the trial on September 18, close to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks - and also...