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...long run than apparent gains through agriculture or industry. "The construction and maintenance of dams are extremely expensive," he says. "But environmental protection and human protection are not contradictory. If rivers had more space, people would be protected from floods and there would be a positive ecological effect." "The brutal reality is that it takes a major flooding event to galvanize societies and governments to take action," says Michael Hulme, director of the Tyndall Institute at the U.K.'s University of East Anglia. "This certainly happened in Britain two years ago [when the country endured widespread flooding during the wettest...
...first cool nights of fall settled on northeast Afghanistan, Ahmed Shah Massoud was barely hanging on. His summer offensive had been a bust. An attempt to capture the city of Taloqan, which he had lost to the Taliban in 2000, ended in failure. But old allies, like the brutal Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum, had returned to the field, and Massoud still thought the unpopularity of the Taliban might yet make them vulnerable. "He was telling us not to worry, that we'd soon capture Kabul," says Shah Pacha, an infantry commander in the Northern Alliance...
...interspersed with the occasional long run?could be considered an athletic event, then the biennial Interhash would be the Olympics of hashing. Taking place Sept. 27-29 in Goa, India, this event promises lots of drinking, great food, good company and the traditional Hash House Harrier cure for a brutal hangover: another run. More than 3,500 participants are expected to slap down $250 each to join the weekend bash. With some 60,000 registered alcoholics in Goa, according to the event organizers, the former Portuguese colony is a natural for hashers. Go to www.goa2002.com for more information...
...Indonesian soil, a highly public attempt to account and atone for the carnage that occurred in East Timor in 1999 when the Indonesian military, in conjunction with local militias, viciously turned on supporters of East Timor's pro-independence movement. But Guterres, the leader of one of the most brutal of the militia gangs, wears the look of someone whose conscience is clean as he asks, "What do I have to be concerned about...
SENTENCED. JOSEPH MESA JR., 22, former Gallaudet University student convicted in May of the brutal murder of two of his fellow students, Eric Plunkett and Benjamin Varner, in their dorm rooms in September 2000 and February 2001 (see TIME, June 25, 2001); to six life-without-parole terms in prison; in Washington. Mesa testified that in a vision a pair of "black hands" directed him to kill...