Word: deserter
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...government that gives them autonomy to control revenues from the oil fields in their regions. The Sunnis, who lost political clout when they boycotted elections in January, strongly oppose such a plan, fearing it would lead to partitioning the country--and leave them with nothing but the empty desert in the middle...
...space shuttle Discovery's successful landing in the darkened desert of California's Edwards Air Force Base shortly after 8 a.m. ET ended what turned out to be one of the safest missions in the program's history-and one of the most precarious following the disastrous Columbia re-entry two and a half years...
...good governance alone won't cure all the country's problems. Even reducing agricultural subsidies in the rich world is unlikely to prove the boon to Niger that it could be to other African countries. Unfortunately for Niger, geography is more important than governance or markets. Landlocked and mostly desert, Niger is close to being a country that shouldn't exist, a hardscrabble land fenced into an uneconomic box by colonial-era borders. So what to do? It's worth pushing on with debt relief, reduced agricultural subsidies and increased aid - and shaming those countries that don't follow through...
...past decade; in Riyadh. Fahd's rule, which now passes to his half-brother Crown Prince Abdullah, was marked by an effort to balance his country's traditionalist religious faith with the imperative to build a modern state. A fan of the U.S., he transformed the once primitive desert kingdom into a gleaming bastion of skyscrapers and expressways and oversaw a massive expansion of Islam's two holiest mosques, in Mecca and Medina. He worked to open education to women and in 1990, in a move that fueled a backlash among fundamentalists, agreed to be host...
...wished someone else could have gone instead of his mom because he was missing her. She had taken with her a sheet containing all the pictures and fingerprints of his second-grade classmates. She emailed her family about how beautiful Mount Fuji looked from space, and the Sahara Desert, and the stars, up close. The fears that weighed on her family sat lightly on her. "To me, there's a lot of different things that we do during life that could potentially harm us, and I choose not to stop doing those things," she said. "They've all come...