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...TIME: African leaders often prove reluctant to leave office, but you've been hinting that you may not stand again? Meles: I have three more years...
Through more than four years of catastrophic violence in Baghdad, the building has survived intact. But a far quieter battle now rages inside its walls, one that could ultimately prove as critical to Iraq's future as the war: how to reorganize the country's mammoth oil industry after nearly 25 years of Saddam's dictatorship, international sanctions and bloody conflict. Oil revenues, which are potentially worth $70 billion a year--virtually all of Iraq's export earnings--are desperately needed to rebuild the shattered economy and end its overwhelming dependence on Washington. And oil companies from ExxonMobil to China...
...goodwill and there's a broad belief that this conference should provide a way forward on this issue," he told reporters on Sept. 4. Environmental groups like Greenpeace have dismissed the agenda as a vague distraction from the need for stronger action, but Howard's tamer goals might still prove difficult to implement. For one thing, even by the standards of most international groupings, where hot air outweighs actual action, APEC usually accomplishes little of substance, other than the traditional goofy closing photo of national leaders wearing the native dress of the host country. From rich Japan to impoverished Indonesia...
...Emergency Motion for the Stay of Extradition reads in part: "In an effort to prevent General Noriega's lawyers from obtaining the evidence necessary to prove this claim, as well as further litigating his rights under the Geneva Convention, the United States intends to release General Noriega from the custody of the Bureau of Prisons tomorrow at midnight, three days ahead of his scheduled September 9, 2007 parole date. No doubt the United States has determined that the best means of ending this controversy is to whisk the General away under the cover of darkness...
...published review of the literature, a team of Australian researchers reports, for example, that Chinese NDEs are dominated by feelings of bodily estrangement without all the pleasant stuff, and that the Japanese see caves rather than tunnels. For co-author Mahendra Perera, a Melbourne psychiatrist, these differences don't prove that NDEs are hallucinations, only that their "final expression is colored by culture, language and learning...