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...siding materials, landscaping plants, defensible space around the home - all these factors are well-known ways to mitigate much of the risk associated with living in the wildland-urban interface. For great material on helping keep wildfires in the wild, check out firewise.org. There are not enough firefighters to protect every home during a major wildfire event. The responsibility for making homes safe from fires must lie with individual homeowners. Dick Mangan, Missoula, Mont...
This round of trade negotiations was supposed to be about "development," which made it ironic that the proximate cause of the failure was the claim by developing nations that not enough was being done to protect their farmers, like the Indian pictured above, from a surge of rich-world imports. But the precise rock on which the talks foundered - if it hadn't been one, it would have been another - was less significant than the evident power and influence that developing nations now have on the international economic agenda. Seven years ago, before Iraq, the subprime meltdown...
Where does the truth hide? Truth is my death; truth is my life. Before the apocalypse comes, I search in vain for a way to protect you, My Egypt, my homeland...
...Chahine's derision toward fundamentalists goes back at least to Cairo Station, where he portrays them as comic relief: when they see dancers gyrating to rock n roll, the clerics mutter, "God protect us!" and "All these new-fangled ideas lead to Hell!" But Chahine was also a nationalist. His 1963 bio-pic Saladin, about the 12th-century sultan of Egypt and Syria, found a clear connection between Saladin's uniting of North African and Mideast Arabs against the Christian Crusaders and Nasser's formation of the Egypt-Syria United Arab Republic to fight Israel. (Saladin was played by Ahmed...
...much lower total of $5 million, and maintained it was taking all necessary precautions to prevent the documents from becoming lucrative merchandise on the black market. "There are steps being taken to stop the use of these particular passports," said the representative, who refused to go into details to protect security arrangements...