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...coalition to some far-flung frontiers, but probably none more desolate than the southern shores of the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan. Once a balmy oasis of apricot groves, fields of watermelon and rivers of fish so fat that each could feed a family, this is now a poisoned desert of salt and brown dust. The catalog of catastrophes that makes up one of the world's worst environmental disasters includes mankind's largest current tuberculosis epidemic and highest rates of anemia, the biggest dust bowl on earth and one of the most extreme ranges of temperatures?from 50C to minus...
...those living nearby, anthrax is the least of their worries. Soviet siphoning of water from the Amu Dar'ya river to irrigate vast collectivized cotton farms turned the fertile delta into desert in a few decades. The Aral Sea split into two and receded to less than half its size. Rains failed. Without the sea, temperatures became erratic. What water remained was a concentrated cocktail of salt, minerals and pesticide runoff from the cotton fields upstream. Moynaq, the nearest town, watched its livelihood drain away with the parting Aral. The former bustling port used to can 70 million tins...
Rove's agenda is understandable: too much dire talk and people may desert the economy and lose interest in and support for the military campaign. "Some might ask why, in the midst of war, I would come to Dixie Printing," Bush said during a visit to a Maryland box-making plant on Wednesday. "And the answer is because we fight the war on two fronts. We fight a war at home, and part of the war we fight is to make sure that our economy continues to grow...
...tribes) would lead to extreme political imbalances in Afghanistan and be a cause of more bloodshed [THE TALIBAN, Oct. 15]. So it is of the utmost importance that the U.S. clean up the mess it creates in Afghanistan, help set up a fair and balanced government and not desert the Afghans as it did in the 1980s. SIBGHAT ULLAH Lahore, Pakistan...
...reunion movie, tentatively titled Baywatch Blast, was scheduled to begin filming in Hawaii this month. (Reported plot point: DAVID HASSELHOFF's lifesaver Mitch Buchannon was not killed in the blast at the end of Baywatch the TV series; he was rescued by a whale, which took him to a desert island.) But production was delayed, in part, Fox says, because some of the cast, which Hasselhoff hoped would include the show's "big girls," like YASMINE BLEETH, right, and ALEXANDRA PAUL, left, "felt uneasy about being out of the continental United States at this time." Those jitters and the fact...