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...that are already seen. For example a lot of people say, 'why don't you do birds?' Some of them do these fantastic courtship dances. But they are often filmed and so they're beautiful themselves, so I don't see any way that we could make it any better. But earthworms and flies have not been filmed this way, so it becomes more inspirational for me to make. (See pictures of tiny creatures from the deep seas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Isabella Rossellini's Green Porno | 4/9/2009 | See Source »

...Israeli-Palestinian conflict is of fundamental importance to the whole struggle going on in the Islamic world. That isn't to say that its cause is the [Israeli-Palestinian] conflict, but its resolution would be a major part to solving it. If this thing could be put on a better and different path, it would change the whole dynamic within Islam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tony Blair on Restarting the Middle East Peace Process | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...security that allows them to support it and jobs that provide an alternative to fighting. "We are not going to kill our way out of this war," says Lieut. Colonel Brett Jenkinson, commander of the U.S. battalion stationed in the Korengal Valley. "What we need is a better recruiting pitch for disaffected youth. You can't build hope with military might. You build it through development and good governance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. in Afghanistan: The Longest War | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...that connection, then we won't be able to hand security over to them." Many U.S. soldiers complain that the ANA simply isn't ready for the fight, that its soldiers are careless with their ammunition, often expending it all in the initial moments of battle. More training and better equipment will help, says Jenkinson. "I don't think the ANA is lacking the ability to fight the close fight. What they are lacking right now is air support, logistics and medevac abilities. If we were missing that kind of support, we wouldn't be going out either." (See pictures...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. in Afghanistan: The Longest War | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

...really that simple? Afghans like Khan say only a small fraction of the insurgency consists of hardened jihadis willing to fight to the death; the rest are ordinary, poor villagers who simply haven't been given a better option. Khan estimates that the insurgents earn from $100 to $200 a month, money that comes from the illegal trade in lumber. Similarly, analysts in Afghanistan's south, where U.S. and coalition forces are fighting an insurgency funded by the opium trade, argue that the U.S. policy of poppy eradication has only fueled the fighting by eliminating income without providing an alternative...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The U.S. in Afghanistan: The Longest War | 4/8/2009 | See Source »

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