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...Young isn't the only politician to blame. In 1956, when I was 8 years old, my Congressman was John D. Dingell. There are people in southeastern Michigan who are still represented by Dingell, the longest-serving member in the history of the House of Representatives. "The working men and women of Michigan and their families have always been Congressman Dingell's top priority," his website declares, and I suppose he thinks he has served them well - by resisting, in succession, tougher safety regulations, more-stringent mileage standards, relaxed trade restrictions and virtually any other measure that might have forced...
...China FACING NATURE'S FURY Typhoon Morakot ravaged the Philippines and Taiwan before slamming into China's southeastern coast, flooding thousands of acres of farmland and forcing a million people to flee Fujian and Zhejiang provinces. Beijing estimates that the storm--the ninth in this year's Pacific typhoon season--destroyed 6,000 homes and inflicted $1.3 billion in damage. Morakot also breached dikes in the northern Philippines, flooding several villages (above), and walloped Taiwan with 74-m.p.h. winds, killing at least 62 people and causing the island's worst floods in 50 years...
...execution of 13 men in Iran on July 14 highlights a central theme of the regime's response to the protests that followed the disputed result of the June 12 election. Those executed were not street protesters, but instead were accused by authorities in the southeastern Iranian province of Sistan-Baluchestan of being members of Jundallah - a Sunni Muslim terrorist group, which may have links to al-Qaeda and the Taliban. The group, composed mainly of Iranians of ethnic Baluchi origin and based in the Baluchistan province of neighboring Pakistan, has been charged with a string of attacks across Iran...
...thousand more times more likely that I am stupid than I am racist.' CURTIS COLEMAN, a U.S. Senate hopeful from Arkansas, apologizing for saying that people traveling to the southeastern part of the state "might as well get a visa and some shots...
...come across anything that says the diet in the Southeast is worse than the rest of the country," says David Bassett, co-director of the University of Tennessee's Obesity Research Center. "We're definitely in what I like to call the 'Stroke Belt,' " he says, referring to Southeastern states' high percentage of heart disease and hypertension, "but I think that has more to do with Southerners' lack of physical activity rather than the food." (Read "A Brief History of Barbecue...