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...occupation by killing or capturing any foreigner, military or civilian, they came across. Together with the fighting in Fallujah, the Shi'ite uprising produced the bloodiest eruption of violence since the war began. In the past week, 46 U.S. soldiers and more than 460 Iraqis were killed. Seemingly overnight, an uprising by the country's previously peaceful majority--a specter that has haunted U.S. planners and could doom chances for democracy in Iraq--went from remotely plausible to dangerously imminent...
...Exercising regularly is always a sound investment. According to a study of 7,000 men that was coauthored by Dr. Tedd Mitchell of the Cooper Clinic in Dallas, fit individuals spend half as many nights in the hospital as unfit individuals do. And with the cost of an overnight stay now in excess of $1,100 (according to the Healthcare Financing Administration), those visits add up. --With reporting by Carolyn Bigda
...down to make lobster pots. Improved rice yields promised to ease the pressure to expand paddies at the expense of forest, but richer rice farmers use their profits to buy zebu cattle, the local measure of wealth, which contribute to overgrazing. "Madagascar's problems clearly won't be solved overnight," says Kew's Britt. "But we think things are slowly turning around." The RBG, he points out, is only one of dozens of organizations now working to ensure Madagascar stays a naturalist's promised land rather than becoming a paradise lost. "The help is there," adds Madagascar Center for Biodiversity...
...black township, where tourists can visit the ghetto hostels set up by the apartheid government to house migrant workers, and Khayelitsha, Cape Town 's largest settlement, now with its own vibrant unofficial economy for everything from clothes to cars. The complete tour costs $45. If you want to stay overnight, Khayelitsha resident Vicki Balman runs a guesthouse from her shanty home. Bed and breakfast costs $25 per person...
Echoing the judges’ enthusiasm, Shawn P. Doyle, staff assistant in the English department, said that all students had radically improved their acts overnight...