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...before the attack on South Waziristan allowed more than 100,000 residents to flee the area and go to camps set up for an expected flood of refugees. While this massive influx of displaced persons risks a humanitarian disaster, especially if the operation is not wrapped up before the onset of winter, it does allow the military to work unimpeded without risking civilian casualties. Still, the camps, if not managed properly, can cause widespread resentment and frustration for displaced civilians, and provide fertile ground for anti-government propaganda...
...Asia has attempted to explain away its poor track record, arguing that when scaled by its enormous population, its pollution problem still falls well short of developed countries'. Asian leaders have also argued that since economic development, itself, is a resource-burning and pollution-intensive endeavor, the delayed onset of the region's economic takeoff casts it unfairly as the villain in an era of global warming. Although both of these claims have considerable merit, a damaged planet engenders little sympathy for the Asian excuse. On an absolute basis, Asia now makes the largest contribution to total growth in global...
...Relations between Karzai and his Western backers deteriorated significantly over the past couple of years, particularly after the onset of the Obama Administration. Instead of stinging Karzai into cleaning up his act, public criticism from Washington enabled him to set himself up as a leader at odds with the U.S., boosting his support in some sections of the population. He sought to strengthen his position through alliances with regional power brokers, including warlords accused of major human-rights abuses and known drug traffickers - people he will be beholden to as he enters a second term...
...start of the Russian Revolution, U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer and rising Justice Department star J. Edgar Hoover took on a "red menace" of radicals, anarchists and Bolsheviks. By 1920, the pair had arrested up to 10,000 alleged subversives. (Most cases were thrown out.) With the onset of the Cold War, fears flared anew. Indeed, the term socialized medicine was coined in the late 1940s by critics of President Harry Truman's national health-care plan. From 1945 to 1960, the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC)--which was founded in 1938 to hunt down suspected Nazi sympathizers...
...something called rebaudioside A - Reb A for short - the best-tasting component of the stevia leaf, which has a profile very similar to sugar with respect to onset, intensity and duration of sweetness. Both Truvia and PureVia use Reb A as an ingredient, although Truvia's label lists it as "rebiana...