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...Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and élite Afghan counter-drug units are poised to stage an aggressive offensive this fall against drug traffickers who are reaping enormous profits in Afghanistan, the world's No. 1 source of opium and heroin. Although Afghanistan's poppy farmers produce about 87% of the world's opium, according to a recent United Nations report, the Bush Administration has been unwilling to deploy the U.S. military to eradicate poppy fields for fear of antagonizing the hundreds of thousands of impoverished villagers whose livelihoods depend on the crop...
...problems, and it's simple. Actually, it's called Real Simple Syndication, or RSS. You start by downloading free software called a newsreader. For PC users, we recommend Bloglines (bloglines.com), NewsGator (newsgator.com) or You (yousoftware.com), which plug into Microsoft Outlook. If you're using Mac OS X, try NetNewsWire Lite (ranchero.com/netnewswire). Each of these has a pay version, generally about $30, with more features, but beginners won't need them...
...probably seen the little orange rectangles on your favorite sites. You start by downloading free software called a newsreader. For PC users, we recommend Bloglines (bloglines.com), NewsGator (newsgator.com) or You (yousoftware.com), which plug into Microsoft Outlook. If you're using Mac OS X, try NetNewsWire Lite (ranchero.com/netnewswire). Each of these has a pay version, generally about $30, with more features, but beginners won't need them. Then head over to your favorite websites and subscribe to their RSS feeds by clicking on any button that says RSS or XML Loh and Behold Avant-garde murals and imaginative furnishings characterise...
...turning Gaza's sand into fruitful farmland. They had six children: three are married, two are in the army, and the children profess a range of religious faith, from ultra-Orthodox to secular. Their second son Yochanan was killed in 1997, at age 22, while serving in an élite Israeli commando unit during a raid into Lebanon. The Hilburgs defied family members who urged that Yochanan receive a military funeral in Jerusalem. "He loved it here," says Bryna. "We decided he would be buried here, where he lived, where we can get to him." Now the Hilburgs face...
...post-Yukos gloom to be over. But Mikhail Delyagin, an economist and head of the Moscow-based Institute of Globalization Studies, urges caution. "The indexes are propelled by growing oil prices," he says, arguing that most of the Russian economy is under the influence of Moscow's political élite. Even so, with oil hitting new highs, doesn't that suggest the Russian market is ripe for investing? Delyagin says Saudi Arabia's knocking up of oil prices and China's oil consumption could push up Russian indexes further, but it would be wishful thinking to expect them to keep...