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...decision to make. They heard on various radio reports that “Americans were coming!” Edgar’s mother, originally from the US, discovered that an US jet carrier boat would be arriving the next day to transport all American citizens to the nearby Guinea. With RUF leaders declaring that no one would be allowed to leave the country because the entire state was on lock down, the Edgar family faced a perilous decision. “I really didn’t want to go”, Edgar recalls. “But deep...
...facing starvation in the former Soviet Union's poorest country. Launching an appeal for international aid, the Red Cross said that children were scavenging ratholes in wheat fields in search of grain, after crops failed. More than 80% of Tajiks live below the poverty line. LIBERIA Rebels to Go Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone agreed to tackle dissident groups that have destabilized the region for more than a decade. The Foreign Ministers of the three countries said armed rebels caught within their respective borders would be repatriated. SOUTH AFRICA Mbeki Challenged AIDS activists and doctors filed a suit in Pretoria...
...some people oppose stem-cell research because they believe human life begins at conception. But you don't have to believe that to be apprehensive that stem-cell research may legitimize the mechanization of life, the making of the human fetus into the ultimate guinea pig. People are horrified when a virgin hill is strip-mined for coal; how can they be unmoved when a human embryo is created solely to be strip-mined for its parts...
Your article "Who Killed Woolly?" inspired me to read Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond. He believes that the overkill hypothesis best accounts for the mass extermination of megafauna in Australia, New Guinea, Madagascar and North America, where species were suddenly confronted by able human hunters. Diamond points out that it would have been unlikely for these giant creatures to survive countless climatic catastrophes over tens of millions of years and then succumb to environmental changes in a wide variety of habitats just after the first humans arrived. I only hope that modern research can help us learn from...
...President Joseph Estrada declined to answer charges of perjury from the country's anticorruption court. The court entered a plea of not guilty and set the next hearing for August. 2. The former movie star will this month face a much more serious charge of economic plunder. PAPUA NEW GUINEA Curfew Prime Minister Mekere Morauta imposed a nightly curfew on the capital, Port Moresby, until July 10 after three people were killed in antiprivatization protests. Residents were urged to stay indoors from dusk to dawn to help police restore order. Six days of peaceful protest against the sell...