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With garlands of colored lights decorating Baghdad for the holy month of Ramadan, the city is engulfed more by holiday spirit than war fever. After the U.N. eased sanctions against Iraq in 1996, local markets grew flush with everything from Korean TVs and Japanese cars to Syrian trousers and Egyptian milk. For reasons unknown, the government recently gave families an extra month's supply of such rationed items as rice and beans. Millions of dollars of illicit revenues are sloshing through the economy, thanks to oil smuggled across the borders with Jordan, Turkey and Iran. Iraqis are thus enjoying...
...rupees [$170]," Shah Hakim Mizhdua, a local resident, told TIME before another man interrupted, barking, "Shut up! I haven't been paid yet." Told of the spending spree, Afghan intelligence officials had no doubt where the cash came from. "While we're broke, the Taliban and al-Qaeda are flush," says an intelligence officer in Afghanistan's Paktika province, which includes Angurada. Officials in Islamabad say the Frontier Corps has orders to grab any terrorist suspects but hasn't seen...
...last June, Thailand accounted for 28% of the shrimp imported into the U.S. But this commerce is costly. Long strips of coastline south of Bangkok now look like powdery gray moonscapes. Shrimp farms can raise the salinity of the surrounding soil and water, poisoning the land for agriculture. Some flush their effluent into the sea, killing mangrove trees. Shrimp farming is also practiced in Brazil, India and Ecuador, and in the U.S. in Florida, South Carolina and Texas...
...this year as it was six years ago; while Colorado leans right, polls put the race in a near dead-heat. The money is flowing, too. While Democrat Tom Strickland was plagued by financial problems in his first try against Republican incumbent Wayne Allard, this year both candidates look flush. That's thanks in part to the DNC and RNC - proving that when you need cash from the front office it never hurts to have the fate of the U.S. Senate hanging in the balance...
...questions haven’t stopped, not since December of my senior year, when that acceptance letter fell through a slit in our front door. Long Island is flush with stellar public schools, and it isn’t easy to justify the more radical aspects of Waldorf education—for example, the aversion to competition, the policy on teaching reading relatively late in child development—in an increasingly accelerated society. Ironically, the fact that I go to Harvard—according to my high school principal, the first grad to do so since the mid-1970s?...