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...region have baked in unrelenting 90-degree weather that has sometimes peaked to more than 100. The heat-related death toll already stands at 25 and is likely to climb higher as heat advisories continue to be posted from Kansas eastward through the Ohio Valley and parts of the Southeast. Utilities are scrambling to keep up with the service needs generated by record air-conditioning usage. And that?s not all. Although the hot weather has people soaking through high humidity, rain has been just about as rare as a snowflake in July. From Massachusetts to Virginia, near-drought conditions...
...Clinton and Jiang, which had been in jeopardy, would go ahead following a weekend during which the U.S. firmly reiterated its support for the "One China" policy and gently chided Lee?s claim that Taiwan should be treated as a separate state. Washington?s allies in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations followed up Monday with a communiqu? reaffirming their recognition of Beijing as the sole government of a single China...
Suddenly the computer is barking out directions in a synthesized voice: "Go north on Henry Hudson Parkway!" "Go southeast on I-95, Exit 1A, 2 min. 59 sec. away!" It's at once creepy and reassuring. Karyn steps on the gas. "I feel I have to keep up," she complains. But wait! Following the signs south would take us to New Jersey. That's not right. We ignore the computer this one time and head north. After that, we follow the rest of the directions to Hanover, N.H., without incident; even when we wander off course, the green arrow shows...
...interlocutor for a disenfranchised population ?- obviously mindful of the fact that in the Kosovo conflict NATO ostensibly went to war to secure autonomy for an oppressed group within Yugoslavia. In addition, the trial doesn?t appear to have reduced support for his cause in Turkey?s heavily Kurdish southeast. So whether or not Turkey actually executes Ocalan, it?s likely to continue to be plagued by the cause of which he is a symptom...
...doesn't feel real because afterwards I don't think that my life is going to change that much," says the senior from Iowa City, Iowa, who recently received a Rockefeller Fellowship to support a year in Southeast Asia...