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...regions. Furthermore, because unchecked looting and ethnic violence prevented any real planting, this aid-hungry area will have no crops this year. This forced starvation will bring about the eradication of the Darfurians with remarkable speed. According to the projections by the United States Agency for International Development, the crude death rate in Sudan by December 2004 will be 6 times the rate considered “catastrophic” by Doctors Without Borders...
Wier said that a crude nuclear device could be assembled from commercially available parts, and the only way to prevent nuclear attacks is to keep fissile materials away from potential terrorists...
PURNOMO YUSGIANTORO, OPEC president, arguing that even after crude oil hit a 21-year-high price of $41.85 a barrel, the cartel has limited power to control the cost of fuel
Some observers in the military believe the nudity and sexual humiliations staged at Abu Ghraib are not all that different from the crude hazing and horseplay that are commonplace among servicemen. In his 2003 book Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles, author and former Marine Anthony Swofford describes how his unit staged a "field f___," a simulated mass rape of one Marine by others, to let off steam and entertain a visiting journalist. Says Swofford of the scenes at Abu Ghraib: "We can be assured that somewhere on American military bases throughout the world...
...Cost per barrel of crude oil at last week's close, the first time the oil price has been this high since the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait...