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...American aims in the region and resentment of civilian casualties inflicted during previous U.S. operations. "This operation will cause even more insecurity," says Joma Khan, a 32-year-old unemployed man in Lashkar Gah. "Because when people lose their family members or their houses get destroyed, then they join Taliban." (Read "Diplomatic Surge: Can Obama's Team Tame the Taliban...
...their ethnicity, gender and socioeconomic status. Older male Hispanic adolescents were the most likely to believe their lives would be cut short. Among teens whose families received any form of financial assistance from the government, nearly one-quarter believed they were likely to die young. (Read "Which Kids Join Gangs? A Genetic Explanation...
...white firefighters who had done better on a test than minority firefighters had. But aside from the ruling's implications for antidiscrimination law, the most intriguing issue raised by the decision is what it might mean for Sotomayor's influence on a court that she is almost sure to join in October...
...guides explain that Ecuador recognizes this threat and wants to protect its forests. Without nearly the requisite funding, however, it has implored the international community to provide help. Germany has volunteered to lead this charge, but other countries—such as the United States—must join the effort if the jungles of Ecuador are to survive...
...state be redrawn so that large Arab communities inside Israel would lose their citizenship and be carved out. It's a notion that many Israeli-Arabs resist, and they proclaim sarcastically that it's better to remain second-class citizens inside Israel, with its better schools and clinics, than join a Palestinian state that, judging by the current mayhem inside the territory, would be riddled with corruption and appalling services. "Better an Israeli hell than a Palestinian paradise," is one popular saying...