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...once during the school year, had ballooned to 34,000, partly because of the home-foreclosure crisis. At least 1,500 students were homeless--probably more. "I had a whole array of students who were angry, depressed, not getting the rest they needed," Cash says. It led him to ponder an unusual proposition: What if the best way to help kids in impoverished urban neighborhoods is to get them...
...truth about Burma, renamed as Myanmar by its generals, is that the sanctions debate is immaterial. While American and European foreign policy thinkers ponder how to financially strangle an army government that has ruled since 1962, Burma's regional neighbors are embarking on a new Great Game, scrambling to outdo each other for access to this resource-rich land. "Sanctions don't work if most countries ignore them," says Naw La, an exiled environmentalist with the Kachin Development Networking Group in Thailand. "The military is selling our natural heritage without any concern for our people...
Rethinking Tradition Politics is not the only focus of the soft revolution. Its most fundamental impact, indeed, may be on the faith itself. In the shadows of Kocatepe Mosque in Ankara, Turkey, a team of 80 Turkish scholars has been meeting for the past three years to ponder Muslim traditions dating back 14 centuries. Known as the hadith, the traditions are based on the actions and sayings of the Prophet Muhammad and dictate behavior on everything from the conduct of war to personal hygiene. (See pictures of Iranians...
...meantime, go through the VOID and beyond with this clay version of The Deathly Hallows, catch up on the freshest dance moves in time for SB, and ponder the joys of crack (a must...
...know what's really getting to you tonight. Poor Tripp =(. To cheer you up, a couple humorous selections that'll make you laugh, or ponder how utterly random this all is: old people, being old (via 2arrs2ells), and an old-school FlyBy favorite, featuring Ahhhnold...