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Given that the entire province was under virtual lockdown, the scale and ferocity of an August 4 attack on police in the city of Kashgar that left at least 16 soldiers dead and an equal number wounded was particularly shocking. The incident will undoubtedly cast a pall over the beginning of the Games and has also underlined fears of further such events aimed at exploiting the media spotlight currently focused on China...
Besides, the voting starts soon. From what I can tell by looking at surveys of various state election rules, the first opportunity to cast a ballot between McCain and Obama will come on September 13, a mere nine days after the end of the GOP convention, when traditional absentee voting begins in Pennsylvania. The next day, September 14, Idahoans can walk into county election offices in that state and cast a vote in person. Within a week, voters in Delaware, Illinois, Iowa and Michigan, Virginia and Wyoming can cast their ballots by various means and under varying rules. Early voting...
...what is perhaps most important of all is that they will be doing so in record numbers. About 20% of the electorate cast early ballots of some kind in 2004 and that figure jumped to 25% in the 2006 elections. Early voting experts believe it will skip again in this cycle to around 30%. That could mean that perhaps 35 to 40 million people will cast ballots before the polls open...
...doing the opposite. Many counties have early voting sites setup at various point in big cities; other states have removed the requirement that voters must provide "a reason" for voting early or by absentee. Deadlines are expanding in both directions so you can request absentee ballots sooner and cast them later. Voting is, slowly but surely, getting easier...
From 30,000 ft. up, flying over the heart of the ice cap, you can't imagine it would ever be possible to lose Greenland. The only flaws in the sheer, marble-colored landscape are the black shadows cast by the scattered clouds above. But as our plane heads west toward the old American air base at Kangerlussuaq, puddles of blue glacial melt begin to appear - vast, unblinking eyes that reflect the sky back up. Then the whiteness is suddenly ruptured and the ice wrinkles and thins, revealing slashes of rock beneath the 2.9 million cubic...