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...passage in the liturgy for Yom Kippur, the somber Jewish holiday of repentance, bids believers to speculate on the ways to die. "Who by fire and who by water," they read in unison. "Who by the sword and who by wild beasts, who by famine and who by drought..." It is a hard passage. Wild beasts? There are usually some raised eyebrows...
...Even in the '60s, Tuareg society was struggling. Drought and government decree were relegating traditions?nomadism, historic hierarchies, the methodology for naming children?to the social scrap heap. The pace of change has only quickened. Tamanrasset, once a sleepy Sahara town, is now a real city, full of "big trucks, smaller trucks, jalopies, pickups of every conceivable make and era, cars, mopeds and bicycles; but no camels." Many Tuareg who have shunned city life make camp with government-issue tents instead of animal skins and wooden poles. Tagella, an unleavened flatbread, is still a staple. But these days...
...Wakil Ahmad Mutawakil warned that more aid agencies, including the U.N. World Food Program (WFP), might be implicated in the investigation into Christian proselytizing. WFP described the allegations as "baseless" and said it had never been involved in propagating religion anywhere. TAJIKISTAN No Rain, No Grain A two-year drought has left a million people facing starvation in the former Soviet Union's poorest country. Launching an appeal for international aid, the Red Cross said that children were scavenging ratholes in wheat fields in search of grain, after crops failed. More than 80% of Tajiks live below the poverty line...
Just when the media appears to have squeezed every last sneer of punditry out of the Gary Condit story, a familiar savior shimmers on the horizon of the summer news drought: The Return of Elian. TIME has learned that Cuban officials are weighing whether to send young Elian Gonzalez to next month's United Nations assembly on children in New York. The special session is to be attended by more than 80 heads of state, including President George W. Bush and possibly Cuban President Fidel Castro. But the Cubans are also planning to send a delegation of children, and Cuban...
...while this August looked quiet. "This summer hasn't produced the usual drought, in part because the media has been fixated on Condit," Kurtz said. But without a corpse - or a word from the congressman - the saga had run up against its limits in May and June, and by August, added Kurtz, the doldrums had clearly set in. "You know things are slow when TV is replaying shark footage and the mere fact that the president is on vacation becomes an opportunity for endless media thumbsucking...