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Still, considering the buildup to this weekend's town-hall meetings (the President has one more, on Saturday afternoon in Grand Junction, Colo.), the proceedings within were civil. Outside the hangar, angry vocal exchanges erupted, but no one got physical. (Read a story about Montanans gearing up for Obama's visit...
...mountains, to land at the Big Sky Resort, the luxury ski and vacation-home development founded by a native son, broadcaster Chet Huntley, nearly 40 years ago. From Big Sky, the First Family will visit Yellowstone National Park before flying off on Air Force One Saturday afternoon to Grand Junction...
...military planes and at least one Marine helicopter had already been flown into the airport at Belgrade, about 20 minutes away on I-90 from Bozeman, to prepare for Obama's arrival and for the side trips to Yellowstone as well as for another town-hall meeting in Grand Junction, Colo. That meeting will be the President's third such appearance after one in New Hampshire on Aug. 11 and Montana's on Aug. 14. (Obama won New Hampshire and Colorado in the election and lost Montana by a narrow margin.) Air Force One will land just after noon...
...Rush to Save the Treasures Sitting at a junction of the Sahara's historic commercial routes on a lazy bend of the Niger River, Timbuktu used to be a hectic crossroads where gold traders heading north met herders and salt merchants trekking south across the desert. The city's lucrative trade fueled Mali's empires as well as a rich ethnic blend of black Africans and Mediterranean people, and an intellectual ferment with dozens of Koranic schools. Refugees from the Inquisition in Spain brought their libraries with them, and soon began writing and buying more books. Timbuktu's literary output...
...border suffers the bulk of the drug war's carnage - and perhaps because of that, it's where some of the freshest ideas for fighting the war can be found. A tragic wisdom has emerged at this dusty junction of developed and developing worlds. On one side of the Rio Grande is Juárez, whose maquiladora assembly plants fuel dreams of modernity but which is now one of the hemisphere's most dangerous cities. On the other side is El Paso, which is one of the U.S.'s safest communities (16 murders last year, compared with Ju?...