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...Defense official told the Washington Post that among them, "there are some names you would recognize"--a remarkable claim when the only name most Americans recognize is bin Laden's. Other Pentagon aides leaked word that the Administration had recently considered but decided against sending commandos into Kurdish-dominated northern Iraq to knock out a clandestine chemical-weapons lab allegedly run by Ansar al-Islam, a tiny fundamentalist rebel group whose ranks are reportedly swelling with al-Qaeda fighters fleeing Afghanistan...
...agreed to marry her. "I thought that this would end up as a happy thing," she says. But eight days after she gave birth, police arrested Lawal, 30, for adultery, a capital crime under the Islamic law, or shari'a, in effect in her home state of Katsina in northern Nigeria. A courtroom crowd cried, "Allahu akbar (God is great)!" as a shari'a court last week rejected an appeal of her sentence. As soon as she weans nine-month-old Wasila, Lawal is scheduled to be buried in the ground up to her chest and stoned to death...
...people in China. The decision will embarrass the Japanese government, which for many years denied the existence of such experiments. Nonetheless, the Tokyo district court rejected claims for compensation from 180 Chinese plaintiffs who said relatives were killed by Unit 731 of the Japanese army based near Harbin in northern China. The court ruled that all issues of compensation were settled in postwar treaties. U.S. War Talk In a speech in Nashville, Tennessee before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney pressed the Bush Administration's case for a war with Iraq. Cheney said that...
Sources for charts Population: U.N. Population division ("Northern America" consists primarily of the U.S. and Canada. Central American countries are included in "Latin America, Caribbean"); State of the World 2002, Worldwatch Institute; climate; J. Hansen et al., Goddard Institute of Space Studies, "Global Land-Ocean Temperature Index in .01C" Worldwatch Publication: Vital Signs 2002; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, 2001; International Energy Agency; Energy Information Administration; food: Food and Agricultural Organization of the U.N. (FAO); water: UNEP Global Environment Outlook 3, 2002; U.N. Population Division, 2000; biodiversity: Forest Resource Assessment 2000, FAO; IUCN/World Conservation Union; Orangutan Foundation International
...rains descended on Asia last week, the peak of the summer monsoon season, and in their wake came death, destruction, and the fear of much worse to come. Tens of thousands of homes have been flooded in northern Vietnam, and an estimated total of 23 million people have been displaced in Nepal, India and Bangladesh. China was the most dangerously poised: the mighty Yangtze River swelled ominously, and the government claimed to have mobilized a million soldiers and civilians to bolster dikes around Dongting lake. By week's end, there was little evidence of immediate danger, but if the lake...