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...Kashmir is the locus of that terrible peril because, for most of the players, continuing conflict works. It works for the militants, who have found an escape from grinding poverty in the gun and the cash and prestige it attracts. That's true of both the indigenous Kashmiri militants and the "guest mujahedin" who come in from Pakistan, veterans of ISI-run training camps in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir and former Taliban-ruled territory in Afghanistan, who subscribe to the same ideal of waging a purifying jihad...
...Libya and Iran, as Undersecretary of State John Bolton recently alleged. Time was recently among the few foreign publications to get an inside look at some of Fidel Castro's most sophisticated biomedical plants - including the Center for Genetic Engineering & Biotechnology, which the Bush administration has cited as the locus of Cuba's bio-warfare capabilities, and the Finlay Institute, where many of Cuba's vaunted vaccines are produced...
...prize turkey gets surgery. A choir needs a pianist. Small stuff makes headlines at the "Wheatstone Mercury," a provincial English newspaper and the locus of Andi Watson's "Slow News Day" (Slave Labor Graphics; 24pp.; $3.50each) whose sixth and final issue appeared last week. Watson has simultaneously released a single-issue novella, "Dumped" (Oni Press; 56pp.; $5.95), which along with SND and last year's "Breakfast After Noon," (see TIME.comix review) make a loose trilogy about the lives of England's urban, middle-class singles. Just as the Mercury turns small events into front-page news, Watson makes smart...
...thereby alleviate the mental problem? We do not need to rob from mental experiences, as Kim puts it, “their qualitative character, their special accessibility to our awareness, and their privacy” in order to affect and enhance them by chemically altering their corresponding physical locus...
...most compelling evidence that cell phones inhabit the social and cultural locus that cigarettes once did is that, quite literally, one has replaced the other. While cigarettes have fallen into relative disuse, cell phones in the U.S alone have risen from 16 million users in 1994 to 110 million users in 2000. Indeed, a study in the British Medical Journal reports that declines in smoking are concomitant with the rise in cell phones. This seems intuitive given their mutually exclusive cost, that they both occupy the hands, etc. The researchers also note rather wittily that “both objects...