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...able to harvest their staple crop of millet and Darfur’s four-month-old peace accord will lie in tatters. At this pivotal moment, the international community must offer Sudan one last chance to accept peacekeepers. If that fails, the UN should invoke Chapter VII of its charter to authorize a peacekeeping mission without Sudan’s consent. Critics of UN intervention argue that it’s unfeasible. In Darfur’s complex civil conflict even militants can be hard to identify—the word “Janjaweed” literally means...
Prepared Table Charter School in Houston seemed like the perfect solution for at-risk youths. Long under the country's microscope for subpar public schools, Texas embraced the concept of using taxpayer money to set up these specialty schools, or charters, as a means of overhauling a struggling state educational system...
...rumors soon began swirling about insufficient conditions. Classrooms consisted of no more than some roped-off church pews. The U.S. Attorney General's Office investigated, and District Judge Nancy Atlas ultimately found that Wilcox, who received $2.5 million in federal funds and $16.7 million in state funds for his charter, overinflated enrollment numbers to receive more state money, arranged a six-figure salary for himself and an $80,000 salary for the receptionist, Louvicy Wilcox, who was also his wife. The school's charter was revoked...
...trip to Washington last month, Abbas made the spectacular claim that Hamas - sworn by its charter to destroy Israel - had agreed to recognize the Jewish State. Abbas had hardly spoken the words before they were denied by a Hamas spokesman. A furious Abbas accused the Islamists of reneging on a deal, and also of sabotaging an Egyptian-brokered prisoner exchange that would return the Israeli soldier kidnapped on June 25 in Gaza and free nearly 1,000 Palestinians held in Israeli jails...
...anyone?). But if flying simply can't be avoided, its environmental impact needn't be a write-off. Consider seating arrangements. "The more people on a plane, the better," says Gehan Talwatte, managing director of London-based aviation consultancy Ascend. Legroom may be compromised during budget or charter flights, but squeezing more seats on board reduces each flier's share of an aircraft's fuel load and greenhouse-gas emissions. While a charter and a scheduled flight each burns around a ton of fuel traveling between London and Malaga, Spain, for example, charter planes can pack in around 16% more...