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...said that his plan to study East Africa stems from his personal interest in the region. His parents met in Africa, and his two older brothers were adopted from Tanzania, he said...
...them in his native Chiang Rai province, and filmed them. The end result - the ironically entitled Agrarian Utopia - is a poignant essay on lives of mounting debt and bug-catching subsistence, evoking eternal cycles of suffering that will seem stunningly fresh to urban audiences in Thailand and the region. See what we learned from a decade at the movies...
...northwest Pakistan killed at least eight people, including three children and three U.S. soldiers. The Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack, accusing the soldiers of working for the controversial U.S. security firm Xe (formerly known as Blackwater). Though the U.S. embassy said the American soldiers were in the region to attend the opening of the school and conduct training at the invitation of the Pakistani military, their presence has heightened concerns among Pakistanis of increasing American involvement in the volatile country...
Cairo, Ill., sits on a narrow peninsula at the confluence of the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, in the heart of a region called Little Egypt for the resemblance it bears to the flat, loamy landscape of the Nile River Delta. Charles Dickens, after a visit in 1842, dubbed Cairo a "dismal swamp ... uncheered by any gleam of promise," although Mark Twain rehabilitated its image 40 years later, making it the destination of Huck and Jim's river voyage in Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At its 1920s peak, Cairo was a boomtown of 15,000 people. But as river trade declined...
...company's operations have alleged that the company misrepresented facts in their application. (Lafarge is due to respond to those allegations in a court hearing next month). Those opposed to the mining project also say that deforestation has led to a severe change in rainfall patterns in the region. (See pictures of the effects of global warming...