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...exile, Tsering Dorje has been able to do more than he ever dreamed in Tibet. In August, he embarked on a six-month lecture tour of every major Tibetan exile community in northern India, hoping to spread his message further...
...guarding against liquid explosives, banning all non-essential carry-on items, is a massive inconvenience and a logistical nightmare. Certainly, the risk of liquid explosions will be almost completely eliminated, but at what cost? When the U.K. sharply limited carry-on items in the immediate wake of the August plot, roughly 20,000 bags were lost at Heathrow...
...been subjected to ever more intrusive searches, interrogations, and general hassle. The security ratchet tightens over time and the costs, in terms of individual liberty, convenience, and taxes (over $17 million per day for the TSA alone), only rise. Even though the British didn’t catch the August 10 would-be bombers by confiscating their toothpaste—it took months of old-fashioned gumshoe detective work—the day heralded a new set of irrational security restrictions. Our shoeless security circus, where minimally qualified federal screeners leer at passengers and seize fruit blenders, only grows more...
...Number of Iraqi families who fled their homes to escape sectarian violence and registered, as of August, with the Iraqi government as refugees. The number of registered refugee families was up from 27,000 the previous month...
...Median price of a U.S. single-family home in August, down 1.7% from a year ago. It's the first annual drop since...