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...Beyond Iraq, a redoubled effort to build a viable Palestinian government that can eventually reach a settlement with Israel would undercut another source of anti-Americanism and Islamic radicalism. The U.S. must also attend to growing instability in Pakistan, a key but uncertain ally in its war on terrorism, and may need to send some of the troops coming out of Iraq to Afghanistan to shore up the shaky government in Kabul...
...Kenyans can now be overheard enthusing about their music, which is getting a lot of airtime on local and foreign TV and radio stations and provides an unusual twist on hip-hop whose lyrics are delivered in an eclectic mix of Swahili, English and Somali - allowing the band to reach audiences in Kenya, Somalia and the Somali diaspora. Being heard by Somalis back home is important to the band, members say, because of their message of reconciliation...
...keep up, strides briskly toward the base of the Burj Dubai, the soaring skyscraper he's in charge of building. Riding together in a jangling construction elevator, it takes us 3 min. 50 sec. to ascend to the giddy heights of the 104th floor - and the building's reach for the sky won't stop there. At the current rate, says Sang, his laborers - some 4,000 construction workers, mainly from the Indian subcontinent - are adding a new story every three days. At that pace, the Burj Dubai will this week surpass Taipei...
...users on Facebook. There's a lot more to go. And there a lot of different applications that are going to be developed to allow people to share information in different ways. I would expect the user base will grow [and there will be] more ways for advertisers to reach people and communicate in a very natural way, just like users communicate with each other. All these things will just get more and more evolved...
...Such opposition riles Ilir Zherka, executive director of D.C. Vote, a group that advocates for D.C. suffrage. With a majority of Democratic Senators supporting their position, Zherka and D.C. Vote have spent the past few weeks lobbying Republicans to reach the 60-vote threshold needed to prevent a filibuster. "We think that would be unconscionable in this case," says Zherka, evoking the more contentious civil rights debates of the 1960s. "There hasn't been a filibuster attempt on a voting-rights act since the segregation era." Of course, the bill first needs to come up for debate. Sen. Harry Reid...