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...four years, the Jakarta branch of the International Crisis Group (ICG) has provided one of the clearest windows into the troubled state of Indonesia. The Brussels-based ICG's mission is to use research to help prevent violent conflict, and it has been in the right place at a turbulent time: American human-rights activist Sidney Jones, head of the organization's Southeast Asian office, and a handful of expatriate and Indonesian researchers have produced 39 uncompromising reports on subjects ranging from bloody conflicts in Aceh, Ambon and East Timor to the origins of Islamic terror in the region...
...film them. North, with help from a newsman in Houston, recruited Dr. Joe Agris, a plastic surgeon at Houston's Methodist Hospital, to operate on the men free of charge. The Department of Homeland Security waived visa requirements, and Continental Airlines agreed to fly them to Houston. The U.S. branch of the German prosthetics firm Otto Bock HealthCare donated seven prosthetic hands equipped with state-of-the-art sensors, worth $50,000 apiece, and two Houston firms helped with fitting and rehabilitation. At a cookout in the Texas hill country this month, the men laughed as one imitated Saddam giving...
...amount of oil the U.S. uses over the long run and reduce the exposure it has to political instability in the Middle East. The problem is that these kinds of changes need bipartisan political commitment, something that has sorely been lacking in Congress thus far. With an executive branch that is determined to force through a shopping list of gimmes likely received from energy industry groups in secretive consultations with Vice President Cheney and his energy taskforce, there is not much hope for decisive action on energy policy before the election...
...dying act, an adult female cicada creates the next generation, laying 400 to 600 eggs inside a slender tree branch by cutting small slits in it with her ovipositor, an organ that works like a saw. Six to 10 weeks later, the eggs hatch, and nymphs fall to the ground...
Regardless of what happens in Indianapolis, Rechul plans to continue training in Colorado Springs for at least another year, and try and make the World Team in 2005. He has one year left on a scholarship which allows him to study at a branch of the University of Phoenix in Colorado Springs...