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...Compounding the chaos is political paralysis. Many Bangladeshis say routine corruption morphed into rampant extortion after the 2001 parliamentary election, when the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) came to power with the aid of fundamentalist Islamic allies. A wide cross-section of Bangladeshis, from prominent businessmen to shopkeepers to truck drivers, complains that the government has failed to crack down on lawlessness. "The general perception is that corruption has worsened under the present regime," says TI's Murshid. The rise in extortion and violence has led the opposition Awami League (AL) to organize repeated strikes to try to force the government...
Once driven nearly to extinction by rampant fur trapping and forest clearing, beavers are colonizing large swaths of North America where people don't remember seeing them. Since Massachusetts banned lethal leg-hold traps in 1996, the state's beaver population has tripled, to 70,000. North Carolina may have half a million, Manitoba twice as many. From Maine to Alaska, California to the Carolinas, the beaver's numbers are exploding...
...firm date for the transfer of power to local authorities—June 30, well in time to disassociate his presidency from the volatile situation on the ground in Iraq. The president will be able to blame the mess—the suicide bombings, random violence, rampant unemployment and poor social services that plague the country—on the Iraqi administrators nominally in charge, rather than take responsibility for unimpressive reconstruction policy...
...Times remain tough for ordinary Russians: Some 20 million continue to live below the poverty line; corruption remains rife; soldiers continue to die in Chechnya and civilians, too, in the terrorism it has spawned; and a rampant AIDS crisis has left more than 1 million Russians infected with HIV and more joining them every day. But life has become more predictable since the economic catastrophes of the Yeltsin years, and a growing economy is slowly bringing some improvement. The government's elimination of most independent media voices has allowed it to package reality in the most Putin-friendly...
Although he attributed the rampant theft to a failure on the military’s part to secure academic institutions, al-Rahim said that Iraqi customs and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have been doing “quite a bit” to retrieve the items...