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...voters in 2004. He still likes to slip away to play classical guitar. But he can also now acknowledge that he has learned from his mistakes. "I know what I'm doing, I guess," Kerry says. "There's nothing like having the experience [of running for President] under your belt to really understand the country and understand politics better...
...Trees are present more among farmlands in the dense tropical areas of Southeast Asia and Central America, along with much of South America. The proportion is lower in sub-Saharan Africa - although Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai's Green Belt Movement has helped plant more than 30 million trees for Africa's poor. The difference seems to come down mostly to support for tree-planting by governments or NGOs like Maathai's. In places where agroforestry is encouraged this way, trees are far likelier to bloom than in places where farmers are given no such guidance. (See TIME's special...
...long ago, a family driving across Kansas on well-traveled I-70 would encounter nothing racier than a pecan log and nothing more hyped than the "world's largest prairie dog." Then porn came to the highway. The surprising thing is that officials in the Bible Belt state are taking the invasion lying down...
...Germany, thanks to falling prices. Those prices, though, will soon stabilize and start rising, which may act as a brake on growth in the near future. So, too could the widespread layoff plans currently being unrolled by companies that have avoided downsizing thus far - a move that often provokes belt-tightening across an entire economy...
...punishment in which physical force is used and intended to cause some degree of pain or discomfort." There is no comprehensive definition of corporal punishment under U.S. state or federal law. The ACLU and Human Rights Watch documented cases of corporal punishment including hitting children with a belt, a ruler, a set of rulers taped together or a toy hammer; pinching, slapping or striking very young children in particular; grabbing children around the arm, the neck or elsewhere with enough force to bruise; throwing children to the floor; slamming a child into a wall; dragging children across floors; and bruising...