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...early hours of April 6, Italy's worst earthquake in nearly three decades struck in the nation's central region of Abruzzo, killing more than 200 people, leaving tens of thousands homeless and destroying everything from schools to medieval churches. Days later, rescue workers were still searching through flattened apartment blocks and rubble-packed ruins in the slim hope that there were survivors to be found...
...leaders took power last spring. Chosen as temporary compromise candidates to solve a political crisis that was turning violent, they are nevertheless proving remarkably active in trying to change Lebanon's culture of lawlessness. Instead of choosing sides in the great questions that have torn apart Lebanon and the region - the Arab-Israeli conflict, the cold war between Iran and America, the clash of civilizations - they have focused on making Lebanon more livable for its average citizens. And in doing so they could be providing a model for moderate politicians in the Arab world - if they only had more time...
Atlanta's growth bolstered the aspirations of cities and towns across this region. But the recession is delivering a dose of sobriety, and stoking fears in places like Allendale County, S.C., 200 miles away. Allendale County's unemployment rate stands at 23.4%. Ronnie Jackson, the mayor of the town of Allendale, population barely 3,700, says the town's decline started in the 1970s, when the old Route 301 was replaced by I-95 as the main connector to Florida. The town lost motels and restaurants, says Jackson, the mayor since last November. But the more recent closure...
...money and run - has mushroomed. Now, the U.S. Attorney's office in the Middle District of Florida tells TIME, federal agents and prosecutors have embarked on a "surge" of mortgage and loan-modification fraud investigations that could result in more than 200 indictments this year in the Tampa region alone. "The idea is to do as many cases as we can at once," says Tampa U.S. Attorney Brian Albritton, "to clearly send a message that this is not going to be tolerated." (See 25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis...
...that the current rate of commercial fishing would virtually empty the world's oceanic stocks by 2050. Yet, Somalia's seas still offer a particularly fertile patch for tuna, sardines and mackerel, and other lucrative species of seafood, including lobsters and sharks. In other parts of the Indian Ocean region, such as the Persian Gulf, fishermen resort to dynamite and other extreme measures to pull in the kinds of catches that are still in abundance off the Horn of Africa. (Read about illegal wildlife trade...