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...have an army of his own. The foreign peacekeepers who patrol the streets of Kabul and the U.S. troops who make up the presidential guard keep Karzai in power, but he has little control over those who challenge his authority outside the capital. Thus if the U.S. hopes to establish a stable regime in Afghanistan, it has to help create an army for Karzai...
...areas to live and mate in. Male Siberian tigers, for example, have home ranges extending up to 400 sq. mi. In many cases there are no longer large enough blocks of wilderness left for such species to maintain a viable breeding population. So scientists are looking for ways to establish corridors linking contiguous reserves or parks. One proposal would link Canada's Yukon to Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming to allow grizzlies to roam a larger area. A WWF plan calls for developing the Terai Arc across northern India and Nepal. The arc would link 11 national parks and reserves...
...assignment, now optional, is unlikely to be legally vulnerable. Says Duke University law professor Jefferson Powell: "It's pretty clear that this book has a secular nature," and few courts would see an attempt to establish Islam. But some undergrads do. "Three students from my hometown who were coming to Carolina decided not to because of the reading requirement," says sophomore Sean Godley. "I can't help but wonder what would happen if they had us read parts of the Bible, and see the public outcry." Incoming freshman Robert Sullivan says he's upset about the extra work...
...alongside the Taliban against the U.S. in Afghanistan last year. More than one-third of the 350 hard-core fighters being held by the U.S. in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, are Saudi nationals. Billions of dollars from wealthy Saudis have funded anti-American and anti-Israel terrorist groups and helped establish radical schools worldwide that foment Islamic militancy, including the madrasahs in Pakistan that produced the Taliban. Americans hardly expect that kind of treatment from their worst enemies--let alone their oldest strategic partner in the Arab world, which has relied on U.S. soldiers for more than a decade to protect...
...young man, he worked as a custodian there and took long hikes through the mountains. "I know of no sculpture, painting, or music that exceeds the compelling spiritual command of the soaring shape of the granite cliff ..." he wrote in his autobiography, adding that he wanted to establish Yosemite as "a sanctuary." For much of his life he fought to protect the places he loved, using his photographs as a lobbying tool...