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...managed to plunge Nepal into a decade-long civil war that claimed 13,000 lives. But now all know Prachanda, the nom de guerre by which Dahal is more often referred, as not only a man of flesh and blood, but of suits and expensive pens. As results filter in from Nepal's April 10 election - the country's first in nine years - Prachanda's Maoists are poised to win a clear majority in the 601-member Constituent Assembly, a body that will draft the constitution of a new Nepalese republic. The once incendiary, class warfare-waging rebel...
...even if Asia manages to keep its own rice bowl full, high prices and shortages may still filter down to the world's poorest countries. To put the problem in perspective, the Philippines, which faces the most acute rice shortage in Asia, imports just 15% of its rice; many countries in sub-Saharan Africa import up to 40%. Tight world supplies create a zero-sum calculus: Vietnamese rice going to the Philippines is rice that is unavailable for Africa - or for the NGOs that feed the world's most vulnerable populations. "A lot of people don't realize that Africa...
Have you looked at alternative remedies? -Dr. Julius Kryss Frankfurt, GermanyI've received 10,000 e-mails-that's a real number-many of them telling me about different remedies. But my first filter is, Has it been through any kind of clinical study? The plural of anecdote is not data, so if you know three people that did some alternative cure, that's positive, but it's not the same thing as real, clinically proved data...
...doesn’t sound like the hollow boast of a pop-rapper. Nor does it sound like the too-hard attempt of a reactionary gangsta. It sounds like the opening couplet from any old revered ’80s true-school rapper, run through a raw Dirty South filter. Between albums like this, the canonization of Scarface and the late Pimp C, and the rise of rappers like T.I. and Lil’ Wayne, maybe the South will soon get its own pantheon of rap gods. Maybe Pastor Troy will be hovering somewhere nearby, a Spice...
...keep the CLCs in line as the U.S. presence recedes. President George W. Bush said in the State of the Union address that 20,000 troops will pull out of Iraq in the coming months. "When the American troops get out, you will have a vacuum. These guys will filter into it," says a U.S. official in Iraq about the CLCs. "It sounds good now because they are not shooting...