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...four more men were charged. At their hearing, one reportedly responded by saying, "You send troops to Iraq to kill innocent people ... You call me a terrorist. I never killed a person in my life. Your army kills innocent people in Iraq and Afghanistan. Israel takes Palestinian land by force...
Climate change is an urgent problem facing our globe, but developing countries understandably show apprehension when it comes to cutting emissions, given their growth challenges. In India, over 400 million people still live in poverty, and energy has yet to reach wide swaths of the rural land. Indians argue that no one told the United States or England to use expensive, untested modes of energy when Western countries were in their “developing” states centuries ago. Emissions limits could stunt the growth of these nations. However, countries such as India and Bangladesh also have the most...
...Despite its status as only a partial eclipse in Hong Kong, people ooh-ed, aah-ed, clapped, and sighed with every rogue movement of a cloud or surreptitious inching forward of the moon. It was a show with no language and no tickets. I imagined, across the strip of land that was experiencing total eclipse, people turning in unison as the sky went dark and the sun billowed out at them around a deep black hole. There may be nothing tangible that can unite every person across that strip of land from Varanasi to Shanghai except, perhaps, the fact that...
...After all, this is the land where salarymen pour over comic books on their way to work and where stay-at-home moms are also videogame afficionados. In many ways, robotics combines two of Japan's biggest cultural crushes: technology and animation. Some experts say the roots of the national love of robotics are in Japan's Shinto religion, which blurs the line between the inanimate and animate and in which followers believe that all things, including objects, can possess living spirits. "Robots have a long and friendly history in Japan, and humanoid robots are considered to be living things...
...British forces recently completed a major offensive against insurgents in southern Afghanistan's Helmand province - Operation Panther's Claw - that cleared the Taliban from swathes of the area. Now British war planners have called for an increase in troops to hold the land gained in that offensive. A report due out later this month by U.S. General Stanley McChrystal, head of NATO forces in the country, is widely expected to call for an even further increase of British commitment across the region. (Read TIME's interview with McChrystal...