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...profile: an outsider who one day decides to make everyone pay attention. That's not the kid he raised, insists Jeff Williams, Andy's father, who was portrayed as an absentee dad when Andy showed up for his first court hearing without either of his divorced parents present. The elder Williams says that before moving to Santee, Andy was active, well adjusted and well cared for. "We'd go to the beach a couple of times a month. When I was that age, I didn't want to be hanging out with my dad." He says his son snapped because...
...well founded. Afghans who think that Afghanistan can be led only by battle-hardened fighters are skeptical of Karzai. But a country devastated by the misrule of warlords could do worse than be guided for a while by someone with the manner and judgment of a civilian. As an elder of the half-million-member Popolzai tribe in southern Afghanistan, he has leadership experience. Karzai's father was also chief tribal leader until July 1999, when the 75-year-old was shot to death on the street in the Pakistani city of Quetta, where father and son had both fled...
...ELDER DIETS Many elderly Americans will not get enough to eat this holiday season because they lack the mobility to prepare their own meals, according to a study at Cornell University. Others will not be able to afford nutritionally adequate meals. Researchers found that the elderly tend to consume fewer calories than younger people and less of the 18 important nutrients, particularly protein, iron, magnesium, zinc, vitamins B-6 and B-12, and niacin...
...alternative rite of passage, which in one Kenyan language is known as circumcision through words, commonly involves a period of seclusion for the girls. Elder women teach them health issues including the dangers of aids and other sexually transmitted diseases. Sometimes a group of girls is taken to a local school or hall and shown films about the dangers of FGM. The week often ends with a party. "We are not against people's customs, we are against the cutting," says Traoré Dosso Mariam, secretary-general of the Ivorian Association for the Defence of Women's Rights, which encourages...
...marching southwards through the mountains to Kandahar. It may be true that Karzai once was in Oruzgan - he was rescued from a Taliban ambush six weeks back by U.S. choppers - but there are some doubts that he's still there. One reliable Pakistani tribal elder told TIME that Karzai is making his sat-phone broadcasts from a secluded house in Toba Achakzai, a village on the safe side of the Pakistan-Afghan border - and several hundred miles from Oruzgan. "Karzai and his men - these are not fighting people," says Malik Sarwar Khan Kakar, the tribal elder...