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...continued American use of the Manas air base, outside the capital, Bishkek, there was another condition: that the U.S. military stop calling it a base. The U.S. agreed, and so since last summer the busy hub has been officially known as the Transit Center at Manas - a Greyhound bus terminal for central Asia and the U.S. war in Afghanistan...
...into Afghanistan by the fall, more than 1,500 U.S. soldiers cycle through the base every day, either heading into or out of Afghanistan. Flights between Manas and Afghanistan employ Air Force C-17 and other military aircraft, while those from Manas to Europe use commercial airliners. Beyond its bus-terminal mission, it's key to airlifting supplies into and evacuating wounded troops from Afghanistan. Air Force KC-135 aerial refueling tankers are also based at Manas...
...Nevertheless, many Tea Party activists are ready to trade headline-generating protests and bus tours for the unglamorous banalities that make campaigns hum. Jenny Beth Martin, national coordinator of the Tea Party Patriots and co-chair of the Atlanta Tea Party, says her group is teaching members how to set up phone banks in their homes, knock on doors to disseminate literature and spread the word about the movement's core values. Honey Marques, a full-time physician's assistant in Arizona, says she spends up to 40 hours per week in her capacity as president of the Tea Party...
...Questions. 10 Minutes. Make a difference!” exclaims a poster plastered to the side of an MBTA bus. Such advertisements are ubiquitous in Cambridge—some cars on the Red Line of the T have been entirely filled with Census...
...Exile A telecom billionaire who has spent much of his self-exile in Dubai, Thaksin is an unlikely savior for a legion of bus commuters. He is everything a Thai farmer or construction worker is not: a pale-complexioned ethnic Chinese with nary a callus on his palms. (Abhisit fits that category too.) But Thaksin knew how to tap into a voter base long underexploited by traditional Thai politicians. His populist policies, which included heavily subsidized health care and microfinancing schemes, delighted the lower classes and helped Thaksin win the largest electoral mandate in Thai history. Economists have critiqued...