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SENTENCED. SHER BAHADUR DEUBA, 59, former Prime Minister of Nepal; to two years in prison for embezzlement; in Kathmandu. After Nepal's King Gyanendra seized power this February, he established a controversial corruption commission that charged Deuba with involvement in a $5.3 million fraudulent deal to award a road construction...
Fahd hoped to be remembered as the great modernizer who was also a faithful servant of Islam; a pro-American leader who used the Kingdom's vast oil wealth to build schools, hospitals, roads and airports as well as to commission a vast reconstruction of Islam's holiest mosques in...
In much of southern Europe, desiccated by one of the worst droughts of the last 60 years, wildfires are raging - and tempers are rising. All of Portugal, where fires are consuming an estimated 1,000 hectares a day, has been declared a severe drought zone. Spain, where rainfall in the...
WILL NASA WHITEWASH PROBLEMS AS IT DID AFTER CHALLENGER? The haunting fact of Challenger was that engineers who knew about the booster-joint problem begged NASA not to launch that day and were ignored. Later the Rogers Commission, ordered to get to the bottom of things, essentially recommended that nothing...
WHAT IS NEXT FOR AMERICA IN SPACE? An outsider commission is needed to investigate the Columbia accident--and must report to the President, not Congress, since Congress has shown itself unable to think about anything but pork barrel when it comes to space programs.