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...reality, PETA has put the cause on the map. I, as a member of the meat-eating contingency, have been enlightened with regards to many animal rights issues through this organization. Try to think of three other animal rights groups-not “animal welfare,” but animal rights. Many do exist, but you likely haven’t heard of them or their campaigns. Regardless of your views towards animal rights, you’ve probably only been forced to consider your opinions on the subject because PETA is effective at putting an uncomfortable and depressing...
...Afghanistan. Inside Karzai's office, the two men converse in English and Dari, one of Afghanistan's two official languages. Karzai, who out of fear of assassination rarely leaves the palace, asks Khalilzad how things look in the country he governs but almost never sees. Khalilzad unfurls a large map and points out various reconstruction projects marked in red and green ink--a network of roads and schools and irrigation canals that will be built, he says, as soon as the U.S. and NATO bring order to Afghanistan. Karzai nods impatiently but brightens when he locates the one major rebuilding...
...dropped 9% last year in China. And although the country's soaring demand for metals has caused a sharp increase in raw-materials prices this year, overinvestment could eventually cause prices to collapse there too. A metals trader in the U.S., for example, hangs on his wall a world map with black dots indicating the location of aluminum plants. Most producing countries have five or six dots; China has 130. "China is building smelters like McDonald's opens restaurants," says the trader, who asked not to be identified. He's worried, because China used to be a net importer...
Photographer Marie Stauder spent three years documenting daily life around Earth's middle, producing a "living map of the Equator." Paul Theroux introduces this stunning visual record of equatorial cultures in the Americas, Africa and the Pacific. Click on time.com/equator...
...evidence against Khan was undeniable. A U.S. undercover agent had penetrated the hub of Khan's operations in Dubai and begun to map out an intricate smuggling web that stretched into Sri Lanka, Singapore, Malaysia as well as Istanbul, Turkey; Casablanca, Morocco; and several cities in Germany and Central Asia, a Pakistani official familiar with the investigation told TIME. So why was Khan pardoned? Government officials say Khan won clemency in return for full cooperation in the investigation of his network. But diplomats and Khan's friends claim he had threatened to name several top military officers close to Musharraf...