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...mujahedin fighters and then the Taliban, all planted land mines on the high cliffs above the colossal Buddhas, and rain and erosion have brought hundreds of these deadly devices tumbling into the valley. Dozens of Afghan de-mining experts are combing the slopes with their metal detectors, trying to avert more casualties. The mines are a particular hazard to the families of Hazara refugees whose villages were razed by the Taliban and who now shelter in the honeycomb of cliff caves once used by meditating Buddhist hermits...
...world is getting warmer? With our April 9, 2001, cover on potentially disastrous climate change, Jeffrey Kluger and Michael Lemonick set a new standard for writing on the issue. Lemonick laid out overwhelming evidence that temperatures are rising, while Kluger showed how U.S. policy has to change to avert calamity. A year later, their efforts have won the Overseas Press Club's award for best reporting on the environment...
Unfortunately, the looming crisis is so enormous in monetary terms that not even the most Panglossian of optimists could hope to avert it with today’s surpluses. The unfunded liability of Social Security over the next 75 years is an astounding $25 trillion. For perspective, consider that the projected ten-year budget surplus before Bush’s tax cut, Sept. 11 and the recession was $5.6 trillion. That number is but 22.4 percent of the expected shortfall, and such surpluses will not continue when Social Security starts running annual deficits in the hundreds of billions ($252 billion...
SOUTHERN AFRICA Food Emergency The U.N. World Food Program (WFP) warned that more than 5 million people faced starvation as the effects of a regional drought worsened. Launching an appeal for urgent international funding to avert a humanitarian crisis, the WFP said the number needing emergency relief in the region was expected to double in the next few months. The agency is already trying to feed 2.6 million people in Lesotho, Malawi, Zambia and Zimbabwe...
...Beth-Israel Deaconess Medical Center—where more than a third of Harvard’s medical students and residents receive training—remains in dire financial straits and Hyman has said that the University would hope to avert any sale of the hospital to a for-profit company...