Word: settlements
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...foreign policy out of the red by late in his first term. If the economy starts growing again, if the U.S. troop presence in Iraq drops without a return to anarchy, if there's a real thaw with Iran and if the outlines of a political settlement take shape in Afghanistan, then Obama will have an opportunity to define his agenda rather than having America's weakness define it for him. If he has the chance, my guess is he'll revive a vision that has intrigued progressive Presidents since Wilson: collective security, the idea that ultimately America's security...
...Dhabi, with row after row of solar panels angled to the Middle East sun like bathers lying poolside. The solar farm was the first tangible evidence of Abu Dhabi's Masdar City, a $22 billion project that is planned to be the first zero-carbon footprint, totally renewably powered settlement - a monument to the use of technology to conquer hydrocarbons. "This is bringing attention and capital from around the world to Abu Dhabi," says Khoreibi. "We're going to use this as a launching pad for clean development...
...doing business in the U.S., according to recent reports. A Jan. 12 study from the Institute for Science and International Security says Iranian firms used Dubai- and Malaysia-based intermediaries to procure bombmaking materials from U.S. companies. Meanwhile, British bank Lloyds TSB admitted in a $350 million U.S. court settlement on Jan. 9 that it had illegally stripped identifying information from bank records so that Iranian entities could do business with U.S. banks. Nine other banks remain under investigation...
...Christ of Latter-day Saints, which was expelled from mainstream Mormonism in the 1930s. For generations, local farmers co-existed with the polygamists of Bountiful. But this relationship, based on the country tenet "live and let live," grew increasingly uneasy over time as strange stories of life within the settlement leaked out and found their way into the media, with accounts of a power struggle between Winston Blackmore, the sect's leader in Bountiful, and Warren Jeffs, the leader of the FLDS Church. Jeffs, now incarcerated in the U.S. for being an accomplice to rape, is facing charges...
...British Columbia Attorney General Wally Oppal ended speculation that the government intended to co-exist with Bountiful by ordering the arrest of settlement spiritual leaders Blackmore, 52, and James Oler, 44, under charges of polygamy. According to press accounts, Blackmore is alleged to have as many as 26 wives and 108 children. (According to tradition, the first wife is listed as a legal marriage, and the others are "celestial wives" recognized only within their faith.) The upcoming trial will test polygamy laws in the face of the Canadian Charter of Rights and its broad protection of the exercise of religion...