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...world for the corruption and cronyism of his regime, and extensive U.S. and European Union economic sanctions bar him and his associates from visiting or conducting financial affairs in the West. So the former champion of anticolonial revolution has over the years turned toward the wealthier climes of Southeast Asia, where he once could count on significant support and still does among private circles of businessmen and politicos...
...horrific Black Saturday fires that swept Australia's far southeast on Feb. 7 are estimated to have killed 201, destroyed more than 1,800 houses, left 7,000 homeless and scorched nearly 990,000 acres (400,000 hectares). As bodies continue to be recovered from charred homesteads, there is growing anger over how the disaster could have happened - and a will to ensure it never does again. (See pictures from Australia's deadly bushfires...
Shaman Outreach: Fifty faculty members from a dozen academic areas conduct research into alternative medicine and healing traditions, including those of shamans serving the local community of Hmong immigrants from Southeast Asia. www.csh.umn.edu...
...offspring to significant health risks. This is merely one of several ethical, financial, psychological and medical issues that have arisen from the stunning news of the Suleman octuplets, who join the single mom's existing brood of six children living with her parents in Whittier, about 18 miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles. Did Suleman know she was having so many kids? Did anyone counsel her? How did she afford this? What is her psychological profile...
...recent Wednesday, 432 people have called in. Nadezhda Kumyiny is one of them. She's phoning from a small village in the Kursk region, southeast of Lyudinovo. She wants to borrow 30,000 rubles--just over $1,000. The woman taking her call fills in the details on a screen. Experienced workers can process a request and grant preapproval in under six minutes, but Kumyiny can't remember her postal code, which slows everything down. Watching over the process is deputy operations director Viktoriya Selezneva, who says the economic crisis has yet to arrive. "The volume of calls hasn...