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Banning the AKP won't neutralize the attraction its positions hold for millions of Turkish voters. And the mere threat of a ban has already drawn international condemnation, and has contributed to a slowdown in foreign investment as well as a weakening of Turkey's currency. That said, political Islam would indeed pose a future threat to the modern lifestyles of many Turks - and, despite the AKP's protestations, it's not unreasonable to suspect that the party might want to strengthen Islam's role in political life. Still, it's worth keeping such worries from spiraling out of control...
...rights of prisoners held at Guantánamo. What's less well known is that there are also a number of vital environmental cases facing the Court that could go either way, depending on who wins the Presidency. "There are few areas where the battle lines are as clearly drawn between environmentalists and their opponents as the Supreme Court," says Kendall. (Listen to Kendall talk about the future of the Court on this week's Greencast...
...while Buddhism in the West might carry with it a hint of the exotic, here the appeal has more to do with its simplicity and pragmatism. That's what has drawn so many New Delhi yuppies to Soka Gakkai, a lay Buddhist movement whose extensive land holdings and political influence have sometimes made it controversial in Japan, where it was founded. Soka Gakkai has had a tiny presence in India for decades. But the group has blossomed in the last eight years, growing from 5,000 to 35,000 members - 20,000 of them in New Delhi alone...
Florida's leaders believed that if they could just drain the swamp, they could turn a peninsular wasteland into a recreational, agricultural and residential paradise. They failed catastrophically. In 1928, a hurricane blasted Lake Okeechobee, killing some 2,000 pioneers that their promises had drawn to the Everglades...
...painful enough. Formula One boss Max Mosley is waging a bruising court battle with Britain's News of the World over its report on his allegedly Nazi-themed sadomasochistic orgy with five prostitutes. A video clip of the tryst, which has mesmerized the British tabloids and broadsheets alike, has drawn 3.5 million hits online...