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Saudis are wondering how long the imams will stay in line. "When they speak about tolerance, the words don't come out easily," says a senior provincial official. "What we are hearing is only a facade. You can smell the disgust they feel in mouthing their new rhetoric." Sometimes it...
Is Asia prepared for another epidemic? The news on some fronts is heartening. Airports have invested in health-screening devices, and hospitals in areas hit hard by the virus first time around have acquired quarantine facilities and equipment needed to protect hospital workers. For example, in Hong Kong, where hospitals...
In the mountains of Afghanistan, summer is the season for fighting. The past three months have seen more than their usual share of it as remnants of the Taliban, ousted from power by U.S. and coalition forces in 2001, have regrouped, attacked remote government outposts, held positions for a few...
Just past 11 p.m., Russell's phone rang. The informant had spotted the target; the operation was a go. "I wanna get this bastard who's been attacking my men," Russell said as the convoy pulled out and headed to a flophouse in town where the Fedayeen commander was lodging...
Cats had an even more negative reaction. When they heard the news, they called their own meeting - in Paris, of course - to denounce canine subservience to the human hyperpower. (Their manifesto - La Condition Feline - can still be found in provincial bookstores.)