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...agriculture-more than 80% of its 14 million citizens are farmers. Cambodia's population has doubled since 1975, and most of these extra mouths are in the countryside. In Phnom Penh, the tree-lined colonial avenues are being transformed by rapid construction that is uprooting fragrant frangipani trees in favor of glass-plated office buildings. The newfound wealth, though, hasn't extended much past city borders, and the disparity between rural residents and city folk is only growing. To make things worse, the poor are being victimized by widespread land grabs, in which plots tilled by generations of farmers...
...favor U.S. plans for a bigger military role in West Africa We have problems in the Niger Delta, but I prefer what I will call a homegrown solution. I think we are on top of the situation and our military can deal with it. We don't have a problem with the U.S. military taking an active interest in the region, but our security forces are competent and can handle any threat, at least...
Falwell argued that "The Supreme Court was in favor of abortion but not prayer in school," as Duffy and Gibbs put it. Falwell typically prevaricated on the truth for his own purposes. The court doesn't care about school prayer as long as it is not an official activity that requires unwilling persons to endure it. Lots of praying goes on in schools across the U.S. The problem is not prayer but attempts by some Christians to control everyone else. That leads to theocracy, something the settlers of New England tried and found wanting but that Falwell seems to have...
...anti-immigrant rioters in Philadelphia burned two Catholic churches. By the mid-1850s, an anti-immigrant political movement, the Know-Nothings (so-called because their organization was secret), seemed poised for national success. Abraham Lincoln disdained them: "How can any one who abhors the oppression of Negroes be in favor of degrading classes of white people?" The onset of the Civil War threw the Know-Nothings into the shade; the U.S. had enough homegrown trouble without worrying about immigrants...
...TIME: So, you too are a partisan. Do you have any sympathy for the argument made by Christian activists that our culture and courts favor non-belief, and that Christians need redress to re-establish a level playing field...