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...Chekhov once visited Sakhalin Island to report on the condition of its prisoners and left a tagline unlikely to be adopted by the tourist bureau - if there were one: "Now I have seen Sakhalin, which is hell." And this from an author famous for understatement. Exiled at the far eastern end of the Russian Federation, just north of Japan, Sakhalin Island was where imperial Russia once sent some of its most unfortunate convicts, on a journey that was usually one-way. In Soviet times it became a closed military base; site of the notorious shooting down of Korean Air Lines...
...Within minutes of Ramos-Horta's announcement Fretilin activists, most of them from Timor's eastern provinces, poured into the streets from their refugee camps dotted around the capital, Dili. They set up barricades of tires, stones and bushes wherever roads bordered the camps, and from behind them launched rock attacks on passing cars. In the grounds of Dili hospital, Fretilin supporters living in tents pitched in the grassy courtyards between the wards emerged to taunt westerners living nearby. As the shouting turned into fighting, UN police, New Zealand soldiers and Portuguese Republican National Guard with riot gear and bullet...
...purely contemporary phenomenon - conjuring up images of multinational coffee chains and multilingual call centers - to Chanda it is as old as humanity itself, and as complex and unpredictable. It "has worked silently for millennia without being given a name," writes the author, a former editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review now at the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. And it moves through "a multitude of threads connecting us to faraway places from an ancient time." As proof, he has his DNA tested and learns that his distant forebears arrived in the Indian subcontinent by way of Africa...
Jacob Zuma was born in the poor, sparsely populated area of Nkandla in the eastern province of KwaZulu-Natal. His father, a policeman, died when he was 3 and his mother found work as a domestic servant in Durban. Zuma was working full-time by 15. His elder brother was an ANC member, and at 17 Zuma joined too. The apartheid government banned the party the next year, 1960. In 1963, Zuma was arrested, convicted of trying to overthrow the government and sentenced to 10 years, which he served on Robben Island, the famous prison off Cape Town where Nelson...
...challenge of safeguarding research facilities is not just Britain's. In 2003, the U.S. General Accounting Office (now called the Government Accountability Office) found serious flaws in the security of the 50-year-old Plum Island Animal Disease Center off eastern Long Island, New York - the only facility in America cleared to research FMD. Two years later, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the facility had become outmoded and "increasingly costly to maintain." Last year, the department said it was considering locations for a new, $450 million disease...