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...though, the few U.S. soldiers stationed in Monrovia to defend the embassy are greeted not with cheers but with shaking fists. "To a certain degree, the Americans have already blown it," says a Western aid worker in Liberia. If the U.S. intervenes, he says, "rather than saying thank you, Liberians will be saying, 'It's about time.'" Unless, as many in the international community fear, they're saying it's too late. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi and Eric Roston/Washington
...more villagers are ravaged by full-blown AIDS, they have begun demanding relief from the state. Last month, a handful of Wenlou victims had faith enough in their leaders' benevolence to travel to the provincial capital of Zhengzhou. Their goal was to convince health officials to help them set up organized care for children orphaned by AIDS...
PUPA 1 to 4 days Known as tumblers, these premosquitoes are almost ready to become full-blown pests...
...anti-American antics on the campaign trail, and Herta Däubler-Gmelin, the Justice Minister who said it, was let go. Now it is Berlusconi, President of the European Union for the next six months, who has launched this verbal weapon of mass destruction, and it has, predictably, blown up in his face. If the N word has become devalued by overuse, so has the currency of moral indignation. So when French Premier Jean-Pierre Raffarin told a gathering of center-right leaders in Strasbourg last week that his country would be heading straight for heaven if the Socialists...
...arrangements with Dahlan, has called the truce with Hamas "a threat to peace," because it leaves their terror capability intact and gives them time and space to regroup. Israel will reportedly give Abbas and Dahlan up to six weeks, following the resumption of security control, to launch a full-blown crackdown designed to disarm and dismantle the terror wings of Hamas and other groups. But current indications are that this is unlikely to happen, which could leave the U.S. micromanaging an increasingly messy process. Already, Bush administration officials have been working with Israeli security chiefs to set rules for Israel...