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...across the border, reminding journalists of the movement's emergence a decade ago in the madressas of Pakistan. The country is nominally on friendly terms with President Karzai, but it is also well aware that his writ doesn't extend much beyond the palace gate - and also that the Northern Alliance which dominates the government all around Karzai is closely allied to India, whose influence has grown considerably at Pakistan's expense in the post-Taliban Afghanistan...
...organized majority Shi'ites will have to cut a deal with the proud, well-organized, not so powerful Kurds. (If the Kurds are given an excuse to declare their independence, both Turkey and Iran--countries with large, freedom-seeking Kurdish populations--will be destabilized, and a Turkish invasion of northern Iraq is a good bet.) Even if there is an accord between the Shi'ites and the Kurds, the two will then have to find a place for the Sunnis, who have been the ruling class in Iraq since the Ottoman Empire. The U.S. is not well-placed to mediate...
...streets of the Dual Springs neighborhood, a migrant-worker hub in northern Beijing, are deserted. That's no surprise: more than 13,000 people have been quarantined in China's capital to halt the insidious spread of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), and even those not under house arrest have hunkered down at home in a massive rite of self-isolation. But the shacks of Dual Springs have as few people inside as outside. Despite an April 30 governmental edict ordering migrant workers to stay put to prevent them spreading the disease farther into the nation's interior, most...
...that the dormitory collapsed while other buildings around the school were still standing. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan promised to pursue allegations that bad construction standards may have been responsible. - By Pelin Turgut/Istanbul See Also: May Day Disaster Poll Postponed U.K. British Prime Minister Tony Blair postponed elections for Northern Ireland's Assembly just four weeks before voters were set to go to the polls. The Assembly was suspended seven months ago after an I.R.A. spying scandal. The British and Irish governments rejected as too vague an I.R.A. statement supposedly detailing its commitment to give up all paramilitary activity. Republicans...
...increased precipitation in the north has poured fresh water into the Atlantic, in some places leaving a ten foot thick layer on the ocean surface, according to Terence Joyce, also of Woods Hole. As the lighter fresh water slows the sinking of the Gulf Stream as it hits these northern latitudes it reduces the pull that brings warm water northward. Scientists estimate that the speed of the conveyor in the far north has diminished by 20% since the 1970s. Coincidence? Perhaps, but the synchronous freshening of the North Atlantic, a less vigorous Gulf Stream, and a cold snowy Northeast when...