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...coltan, a rare mineral used in mobile-phone circuitry. Katanga is hugely fertile - it's deep green from the air. "This country could feed all of East Africa and much of southern Africa," says Claude Jibidar, the World Food Program's deputy representative in Congo. But that's small comfort for Dubie's 18,000 refugees. More than 10 die every week from malnutrition, according to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors Without Borders, or msf), the sole relief group in the village. There is a row of freshly dug graves under the trees on the edge...
...tiny component of our atmosphere, carbon dioxide helped warm Earth to comfort levels we are all used to. But too much of it does an awful lot of damage. The gas represents just a few hundred parts per million (p.p.m.) in the overall air blanket, but they're powerful parts because they allow sunlight to stream in but prevent much of the heat from radiating back out. During the last ice age, the atmosphere's CO2 concentration was just 180 p.p.m., putting Earth into a deep freeze. After the glaciers retreated but before the dawn of the modern...
Republicans can take some comfort in the fact that one general rule about politics remains true, even in this difficult year: as mad as voters are at Washington in general, they are still pretty happy with the individual people who represent them. In the TIME poll, 63% of respondents said they approved of the job their local lawmaker was doing. That's one reason Republican strategists say they plan to battle the national tide by localizing individual races. Localizing suggests drawing voters' attention to the issues that most affect them at home. But in practice, to political operatives it means...
...Iraq - dangerous, fluid and with unreliable intelligence. A former Australian official who worked on Iraq says the atmosphere is like that of an emergency room: "You just go from one crisis to the next." Yet most of the bureaucratic handiwork on Iraqi Oil-for-Food was done from the comfort zones of Canberra and New York...
...week's end, Cyclone Wati, formed in Larry's wake, was stirring up waves as it tracked southeast, parallel to the Queensland coast. Meteorologists said it was unlikely to hit land, which is some comfort to the people of Innisfail. As Jenny Hocke says, "It's something I don't think we could ever go through again.'' It may be a long time before Innisfail suffers again; but there are ominous signs it may be struck even harder next time...