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...Taliban intensified recently when NATO and Afghan forces launched the largest offensive since the U.S.-led invasion of Afghanistan more than eight years ago. Fifteen thousand NATO and Afghan troops laid siege to the Taliban stronghold of Marjah. The center of Helmand province's opium-poppy trade, a major source of Taliban funds, Marjah had long been a no-go area for NATO troops. At the same time, in the Pakistani port of Karachi, a raid on a seminary by CIA and Pakistani intelligence agents netted Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban's military commander and a confidant of Mullah...
...America - is perched on a stretch of earth that violently resists all efforts to tame it. Situated along the ring of fire, a hotbed of seismic activity that encircles the Pacific, the plates Chile sits on top of regularly unleash earthquakes of extremely high magnitude - more than a dozen major earthquakes since 1973. Richter can assign them a number, but it is difficult to describe how feverish and angry the earth feels here. The aftershocks this weekend have come fast and hard. Periodically, the ground shrugs and heaves like the back of some restless beast, sending pedestrians suddenly staggering around...
Normalcy cannot return as long as Santiago, and indeed all of Chile, remains essentially sealed off. The airport is closed, major roads are impassable, and even the country's main ports have sustained significant damage. Many gas stations in Santiago are out of petrol, and several stores visited by TIME had empty shelves. The President took to the airwaves to appeal for calm, and in Santiago at least, the population seems to be following her advice. But no society is without tensions, and in the barrio of Maipú, on the western edge of Santiago, the city's underclass...
Chile, however, is no stranger to major earthquakes. In 1960, a 9.5-magnitude temblor - the strongest quake ever recorded by scientific instruments - hit the Chilean city of Valdivia, killing nearly 2,000 people. And although today's quake is the strongest in the last half-century to hit Chile, the country has had 13 quakes of 7.0 or higher on the Richter scale since 1973. That geologic history helps explain why building codes are far tougher in Chile than they are in Haiti, which should help limit the number of casualties from today's quake. So far, 147 people have...