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...name for himself in recent months with a non-stop, everyman campaign by car, bicycle and on foot that has spanned 24 of Afghanistan's 34 provinces. In a country where ethnic fault lines are steeped in bloodshed, Bashardost is trying to bridge the divide by appealing to common grievances such as corruption, insecurity and a lack of basic services. His trademark black vest features an embroidered white dove of peace. But he talks tough about President Hamid Karzai and self-serving warlords he says have betrayed the Afghan public through their criminal dealings, and, in doing so, given...
...Home visits have been so popular with conservatives that the idea kept coming up during conversations White House aides hosted with pro-life advocates earlier this year in an effort to find common ground on abortion. And when Democratic Reps. Tim Ryan and Rosa DeLauro drafted the abortion reduction bill they introduced last month, they specifically included funding for home nurse visits as a way of accommodating pro-life preferences for policies that support women who decide to give birth instead of having abortions...
...TIME do not have detailed knowledge of the specific charges likely to be brought against the Rio executives, they describe the steel and mining businesses - in China as well as other developing countries - as industries in which "side deals" involving key principles like executives and government officials are common. Despite Walsh's assertion that there is "no evidence" against the Rio execs, the widespread assumption among steel-industry insiders with experience operating in China is the opposite - that the government will likely be able to produce evidence that is not, as a source put it, "made up out of whole...
...While piracy has become a common scourge off the coast of Somalia, an attack in a region blanketed with "sophisticated surveillance and extensive navies and coast guards is almost unheard of," says Douglas Burnett, a maritime partner at the U.S. international law firm of Squire, Sanders & Dempsey. It is all the more suspicious given the relatively low value of the listed cargo on board. "The cargo on the ship is timber," he says. "No one would steal a ship for timber, especially in European waters. So perhaps the lumber could be a cargo cover. Was it drugs? Was it nuclear...
...school year was 223,190. ... Nationwide, students with disabilities receive corporal punishment at disproportionately high rates. In Tennessee, for example, students with disabilities are paddled at more than twice the rate of the general student population. ... Students with autism are particularly likely to be punished for behaviors common to their condition, stemming from difficulties with appropriate social behavior. ... Anna M., whose son with autism was physically punished repeatedly when he was seven years old, noted, "The teacher felt he was doing some stuff on purpose. If you met him, you wouldn't know he was autistic straight away. People thought...