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...Mahmad makes his own rounds of the perimeter twice nightly. No one sleeps much: there are challenges shouted into the darkness, bursts of fire, the coming and going of guards. At 11 p.m. and 2 a.m. unseen American planes blitz the area near the pass with what look like cluster bombs...
...there is a dominant motif in European coverage, it appears to be the looming humanitarian disaster in Afghanistan. London's Times gave prominence to a call by The Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund for the U.S. and Britain to stop using cluster bombs in Afghanistan, because of the "serious long-term threat to civilians." The bombs, being used against Taliban defensive lines, scatter 200 smaller "bomblets" designed to maximize their kill-ratio. But the bombs sometimes go astray, and also leave dangerous unexploded bomblets that kill civilians days or years later. Diana spent the last years of her life...
...During production months Miyazaki occupies a corner desk at Studio Ghibli, a vine-covered cluster of buildings he designed in a Tokyo suburb for himself and a full-time staff of 150. The light-filled floors buzz quietly with jeans-clad artists in their 20s, hunched over tilted wooden desks. They far outnumber the computer-graphics specialists on a lower floor, employed only to speed up the production process...
This winter, with the help of a grant from the Mellon Foundation, Newman plans to create an interdisciplinary cluster of social scientists dedicated to the study of recent trends in immigration in the U.S. and other countries...
...Scholars from Harvard and other universities will form the backbone of the cluster,” she says...