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...hopes to intercept terrorists before they check in at Logan International Airport or cruise into the port of New York, its forces must meet them where they live--or where they have temporarily huddled after fleeing Afghanistan. The newest additions to the battlefield, announced last week, are Yemen and the ex-Soviet republic of Georgia. As is already happening in the Philippines, American money, equipment and personnel will flow to these troubled nations in an effort to help their forces root out al-Qaeda operatives, U.S. officials say. These new campaigns, however, will require high-caliber intelligence and some fancy...
...April 2000, China specifically outlawed e-waste importation. But occasional crackdowns have done little to curtail recycling, which thrives on corruption and strong market demand. According to Guiyu junk dealers, shipments often reach the mainland at Nanhai, a Guangdong port city, where they are sorted at large warehouses owned and operated by Taiwanese businessmen. From there, the goods are shipped via truck to Guiyu, where they are then re-sorted and the last round of scrapping is performed. For now, at least, e-waste meets its true and final end in the air of Guiyu's skies, the water coursing...
...fishing port of Berlevag is about as far as you can get from anywhere, perching on the Barents Sea above the Arctic Circle in Finnmark, Norway's northernmost county. Despite the remote location and frozen terrain, Berlev?g has something to warm hearts across much of Europe - a 30-man amateur choral ensemble starring in a poignant and quirky film called Heftig & Begeistret, or Cool & Crazy...
...October 1996, a mentally disturbed woman scratched the paint on 10 cars parked along the streets of Hamburg, Germany's freewheeling port city. The woman found herself before a judge named Ronald Barnabas Schill, who promptly sentenced her to two-and-a-half years in prison for her vandalism. Stunned, newspapers branded Schill Judge Merciless, and the sobriquet stuck through a sheaf of draconian sentences. Trading on his law-and-order image, Schill organized his own political party, the Law and Order Offensive, and won a stunning 19.4% of the vote in municipal elections last year. Now he is taking...
...Settlement and the French Concession and cooperation was strained at best. And in the Chinese section of the city?past the reach of the colonial powers?justice was summary execution at the will of the neighborhood triad boss. This lawlessness combined with the wealth pouring into Shanghai's bustling port encouraged young, ambitious men and women with flexible scruples to dream and scheme?sometimes to their own graves...