Word: coversation
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In Patikul, on Jolo island, General Juancho Sabban, who heads the country's anti-terrorism task force, gives a guided tour of a former Abu Sayyaf base close to one of his forward operating bases. "See how difficult it is to see the bunkers," he says, striding nimbly through the...
"We're being watched worldwide," says Grove-White, a British power-industry veteran whose experience covers four continents and every system, from wind and hydro to nuclear and coal. "The climate debate has focused an awful lot of interest on the commercial development of these resources."
Passions don't shake out neatly along party lines. Republican John McCain wove frantically through last winter's debates trying to avoid the scarlet A-for-amnesty. His sin was promoting a "pathway to citizenship" for undocumented workers. Democrat Hillary Clinton, meanwhile, tripped on a debate question about driver's...
"We want to secure our borders, but we can't wall ourselves off from Mexico," says Representative Ciro Rodriguez, a Texas Democrat whose district covers 585 miles (941 km) of the southern U.S. border--more than a quarter of its total length. Given the historic ties, family ties and economic...
Mealer, an American, was a young freelance reporter based in Nairobi when he was first sent to the D.R.C. by the AP in 2003. The job repeatedly put him on the front line - his book opens with a long description of a brutal gun battle between two tribal militia groups...