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...also been careful not to push an Islamic agenda too aggressively. Erdogan, for example, ran for office in 2002 on promises to lift a 1981 secularist ban on head scarves in universities and other public buildings, but has so far refrained from doing so. Still, the party has also made its share of missteps. Last year Erdogan nominated a specialist in Islamic banking with no expert knowledge of interest rates to lead the country's central bank (the decision was vetoed). The party also introduced (and subsequently dropped) a law banning adultery. Turkey's newspapers are filled with stories...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Divided They Stand | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...achieve happiness and success? -Abdisalan Mire, Hamilton, New ZealandGet your mind right. That speaks to meditation and prayer. All of our movements are prayers. Every statement we make and every thought we have is a prayer. And what are we praying for? We are praying to lift people up. Because if you start to move to a cycle of giving, then you will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Russell Simmons | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

...incubated," he told Congress--if radical Islam was to lose its appeal. In Britain, while maintaining a mailed fist against those suspected of crimes, he tried to treat Islam with respect. He took the lead in ensuring that the rich nations kept their promises to aid Africa and lift millions from the poverty and despair that breed support for extremism. The questions Blair asked--When should we meddle in another nation's life? Why should everything be left to the U.S.? What are the wellsprings of mutual cultural and religious respect? How can the West show its strength without using...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why You'll Miss Tony Blair | 5/3/2007 | See Source »

Over the next three years, KickStart plans to expand into three more countries, sell 125,000 more pumps, roll out a "deep-lift irrigation pump" that can pull water from 60 ft. underground and bring 400,000 more people out of poverty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Moneymaking Water Pump: TOOLS FOR POOR FARMERS | 5/1/2007 | See Source »

Adam tells me he gets terrible headaches from the Janjaweed horsemen in his head. They gallop around and around in his skull. He asks if I can give him a lift back into Sudan. "It's the time of mangoes and guavas," he says. I shake my head, and he wanders off. Watching him leave, Diar tells me Adam is obsessed with going home. Sometimes, when the headaches are bad, he disappears for days. He runs out into the the desert and back toward...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How to Prevent the Next Darfur | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

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