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...Pakistan to the south--in which opium traffickers and Taliban militants have struck up a marriage of mutual convenience. The province is the biggest opium-growing region in Afghanistan, which produces close to 90% of the world's heroin. While the U.S. and Afghan governments have announced measures to curb poppy cultivation, a visit to Helmand reveals how challenging such a campaign would be. Just outside Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, lies a vast expanse of poppy farms. A glut has driven down the market price, but the flower is still the country's most profitable crop, according to farmers...
...Beverage Authorization Team hands out orange wristbands to the twenty-one-and-up crowd. As people line up for their beer, they are offered slices of pizza in an attempt to curb binge drinking. Even the house itself is protected from the hazards of hard partying, its hardwood floors covered in butcher paper and its bookshelves wrapped in plastic...
...continue to hum along, it will partly be by accident. What is conspicuously absent, the economists agreed, is a constructive dialogue between policymakers in China and the U.S. that would put the two nations' increasingly interdependent economic relationship on a more balanced footing. In that scenario, the U.S. would curb consumption and start saving more, while the Chinese--who have been buying hundreds of billions of dollars of U.S. securities, especially U.S. Treasury bonds--would save less and do more to boost their domestic demand. That would go a long way toward reducing the U.S.'s $800 billion current account...
...though he could be the mainstream G.O.P. man. He won points in 2004 for the energy with which he campaigned for Bush and for his unwavering support of the Iraq war. His reformer credentials could help inoculate Republicans from the growing ethics scandals in Washington; his efforts to curb Congress's practice of slipping lobbyist-sponsored earmarks into spending bills have put him on the same page as those in the party who are most alarmed over how the deficit has exploded under Bush and the Republican Congress. McCain's public spat with Democratic rising star Senator Barack Obama...
...close relationship, to stress Washington's solidarity and "buck him up," says a senior Administration official. But Bush aides acknowledge that the cartoon uproar has been an unwelcome distraction at a time when the U.S. is fighting insurgencies in two Muslim countries and trying to build support to curb the nuclear ambitions of a third. "We all hope it calms down," says another senior Administration official...