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Border crossing at the Ladd ranch is so flagrant that sometimes the illegals arrive by taxi. A dirt road parallels the border fence and the Ladd property for several miles, in full view of border-patrol electronic lookout posts that ceased functioning long ago. When drivers reach an appropriate location, passengers pile out and run through one of the many holes in the fence and make their way across the ranch...
...capital of Banjul to choose an interim President for Liberia, men with guns were very much in control. Taylor forcibly moved nearly 2,000 Nigerians and Guineans, mostly civilians seeking refuge in their embassy compounds in Monrovia, south to the port city of Buchanan, out of the reach of rescue. With Taylor's rebels shooting at Nigerian soldiers and Burkina Faso sending in troops to support Taylor, escalation of the war has already begun...
...more than a hundred, which included a mix of policy specialists, legal professionals, and academics. He said the international community has lost "its moral anchor" and cited the industrialized world's systemic failure to provide adequate aid to countries where the infected population of dead and dying could reach 100 million before the pandemic...
...sector corporations to follow suit with 0.7% of their pre-tax earnings. ("Although I would accept post-tax earnings," he added to some laughter.) While $8.3 billion was spent on AIDS internationally in 2005, he added, the projections for 2006 have climbed as high as $15 billion and could reach $30 billion by 2010. "We are nowhere near generating that money," he said...
...forest canopies invented the system in the 1980s. It's an adventure that is eco-friendly - not one nail or bolt is drilled into a tree, as the whole system is held together with tension and leverage forces. The highest point is 30m above the ground, and you can reach speeds of up to 50km/h. And if you're after a bit of wildlife to go with your whooping and swooping, head out early in the mornings for the best sightings of baboons, Samago monkeys and the many birds that nest here, including the shy, cuckoo-like knysna loerie...