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...China and Japan, participants in the six-party talks, share a common need to defuse the crisis. A North Korea armed with doomsday weapons poses an indirect threat to China, because regional powers (Japan among them) would then be encouraged to equip themselves with their own nuclear deterrents. In addition, the talks offer China a chance to play a major role in solving a sensitive and intractable diplomatic issue, while at the same time improving its often rocky relations with the U.S. Japan, too, stands to gain from disarming Kim. North Korea fired a long-range missile over Japan...
...Operations like the one that netted Tamimi earlier this year provide a glimpse of what U.S. commanders hope will be the future of combat in Iraq. Two years since the invasion of Iraq, the U.S. is scrambling to train and equip a new Iraqi army to take over combat duties and pave the way for a reduction in the size of the U.S. troop presence. After a slow start, the training program appears to be picking up momentum: last week the Pentagon announced plans to trim the number of U.S. troops in Iraq from...
...disease, Cambodia and its neighbors would need to radically modernize their animal husbandry practices, separating species (ducks are able to spread the virus without showing symptoms), keeping birds in pens and properly vaccinating flocks. The trouble is, such measures would require hundreds of millions of dollars to educate and equip poor farmers?money that developing countries clearly can ill afford. Officials at the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), which co-sponsored the Ho Chi Minh City conference, have appealed for international help with little success; wealthy donor nations contributed only $18 million of the $100 million needed last year...
...culture for it seems to both reflect and produce the politics and ideology of its time.” It is important for the leaders of hip hop culture to identify such potential for empowerment and enlightenment. An open dialogue will expose the uninformed to new ideas that will equip blacks with a political consciousness, knowledge of the markets and investment strategies, and the intellectual capabilities to mobilize and produce change. Most importantly, it will inspire creativity to keep the vitality of black culture for the future...
Still, for every place in the world that's suffering from religious strife, there are many more where spirituality is doing its uplifting and civilizing work. A God who would equip us with the genes and the smarts to cooperate in such a clever way is a God who ought to be appealing even to religious purists. Nonetheless, sticking points do remain that prevent genetic theory from going down smoothly. One that's particularly troublesome is the question of why Hamer's God gene--or any of the others that may eventually be discovered--is distributed so unevenly among...