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Indeed, the North Platte River is merely damp sand for long stretches. Local stores carry postcards of a lush, green Scotts Bluff that bears only a passing resemblance to the bare, tan-colored mesa that rises from the Nebraska prairie and once served as a landmark for settlers heading west on the Oregon Trail. Even the weeds have deserted miles of pasture, leaving nothing behind but swirling dust, starving antelope and bawling calves hungry for milk their mothers can't produce...
...horrors of Unit 731 came into sharp focus on Aug. 27. That day, Tokyo judge Koji Iwata issued a landmark decision on a case brought by 180 Chinese victims of the 1940-41 plague. They were seeking compensation of about $84,000 each for damages inflicted by Unit 731. The government has long denied evidence of such crimes. But the judge declared that "The deployment of biological weapons was a strategic part of Japan's war plans and was carried out under orders from the central army." Unit 731 lay at the heart of these atrocities: Iwata said its "main...
Societies throughout the world have been grappling with ways to ensure that economic growth and environmental protection work together, not at odds. Citizens' groups have raised awareness. Many business leaders are seizing the opportunities offered by environmentally friendly technologies and practices. And as a world community, we have held landmark conferences in Stockholm (1972) and Rio de Janeiro (1992), negotiated dozens of multilateral agreements, built up institutions like the U.N. Environment Program and set out a common vision of progress in the Millennium Development Goals, which include eradicating poverty and hunger, reducing child mortality and achieving gender equality and universal...
...harder. The Stari Most was destroyed by a Croat shell not because of its strategic significance but because of what it stood for - the ethnic cohabitation of Muslim, Croat and Serb. The Croat commander whose unit deliberately brought the bridge down alluded to that when he said the ancient landmark was "not worth even the finger of one Croat soldier." Today, Mostar's Muslims and Croats (the Serbs fled during the war) do not mix much, keeping to their respective banks of the river, especially after dark. They don't share the same feelings about the bridge, either. While Muslims...
Chase and Felton are charged with conspiring to bomb a Jewish or black landmark in Boston, passing counterfeit bills and obstructing justice. Felton is also charged with bank robbery and with illegal possession of a handgun...