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...quickly Tongan girls have learned to surf - from being scared, at first, to paddle out beyond their depth, to within weeks showing competence, upright on a board, 100 m out to sea. They feed, suggests Australian visitor Amber Mercy, off the enthusiasm of their friends. Many Western boardies regard surfing as a largely solitary, internal experience. "But Tongans are a very social people who like to do things in groups," says Burling. Between sets one morning the girls are whooping it up. Tongan Idol is back on television and they're in the mood to sing. First...
...diminishing advantage in these fields, due mostly to the declining number of science and engineering degrees awarded in the U.S. compared to the number awarded abroad. Europe, Japan, and—surprisingly, according to Freeman—China and India are all outdoing the U.S. in this regard, the report said...
...Islamic militants, busting suspected sleeper cells and detaining some radical clerics. Partly as a result of those actions, says Walid Phares, a professor of Middle East studies at Florida Atlantic University, "for the last six months, the tone and the language on [jihadist] websites has changed completely with regard to Great Britain. Once [jihadists] felt that the British are going after them significantly, they decided to go ahead and send the first blast...
There is so far no evidence that Chávez is financing the rippling revolts. But while the Bush Administration continues to regard Chávez as a "negative force," as Rice calls him, some U.S. officials feel it is time to stop dismissing him as a hothead with a dubious popular mandate--especially because he is likely to win another six-year term next year. Chávez "may be a radical," says a high-ranking U.S. official, "but he's a radical with deep pockets...
...problem is that the instinct to curtail our freedoms remains, not least in Musharraf himself. Like rulers before him, he appears to have little regard for civil liberties when they conflict with his political objectives. Hence his willingness to act in what he calls the "national interest": initially denying a gang-rape victim the right to travel (she might reflect badly on Pakistan), or tolerating the roughing up of supporters of a mixed-gender race (presumably because he thinks Pakistan is not yet ready for such an event...