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...women have no force here, nearly all the women wear the burka. Long-standing cultural tradition exercises its own police power. And though these women have agreed to speak to TIME correspondent Hannah Beech, they will do so only through a female interpreter. They worry that their husbands might object if they learned that a man was present at the interview. During the conversation, a man does briefly enter the room. The women all hasten to cover their faces and turn toward the wall until he leaves...
...your article "What's Next?", about other potential weapons of terror [BIOTERROR, Nov. 5], you said one object of concern was imported gum arabic plants, the source of food additives that come largely from Sudan via Canada and may enter the U.S. uninspected because of the North American Free Trade Agreement. This was misleading. Gum arabic is imported into the U.S. directly from Africa in raw form, and at our company we liquefy, pasteurize and convert it into a powder. According to statistics from the U.S. International Trade Commission, no gum arabic was imported from Canada between...
...women have no force here, nearly all the women wear the burka. Long-standing cultural tradition exercises its own police power. And though these women have agreed to speak to TIME correspondent Hannah Beech, they will do so only through a female interpreter. They worry that their husbands might object if they learned that a man was present at the interview. During the conversation, a man does briefly enter the room. The women all hasten to cover their faces and turn toward the wall until he leaves...
Still, Abdullah's firm grip on extremists may be wearing thin for some constituents. Many Jordanians object to his bans on gatherings of 10 or more people without permission and on unlicensed sermons in mosques. But Abdullah's tough line on terror may have one immediate benefit: Jordanian officials expect the U.S. to boost significantly last year's $543 million aid package...
...women have no force here, nearly all the women wear the burka. Long-standing cultural tradition exercises its own police power. And though these women have agreed to speak to TIME correspondent Hannah Beech, they will do so only through a female interpreter. They worry that their husbands might object if they learned that a man was present at the interview. During the conversation, a man does briefly enter the room. The women all hasten to cover their faces and turn toward the wall until he leaves...