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...went quietly. A prison warden swung open the door to his 36-sq.-ft. cell and told him it was time to go. "Where?" Slobodan Milosevic asked softly. "The Hague," said the warden. Milosevic nodded, changed from his sweatsuit to an open-necked shirt, and joined his armed escort. They made their way through the central prison's corridors toward a small rear door, where a white-and-blue police van was waiting. He was whisked to a helicopter pad outside Belgrade and met by agents from the United Nations war-crimes tribunal. Six and a half hours later...
...While the police and the U.S. military tried to sort out the criminal investigation, the two countries' diplomats had to deal with the fallout. With some 26,000 soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines on the 2,300-sq-km tropical prefecture, Okinawa is the cornerstone of the U.S. defense strategy in Asia. But ever since the Americans turned the island into a military fortress after World War II, it has been an uneasy alliance. The Okinawans, already estranged from the Japanese mainlanders who colonized their island and then brutalized them during the war, have long resented being used...
...region. But while the landmark replicas and exotic felines draw tourists and dollars, the well-coiffed lawns drain the city's resources because of the amount of water it takes to maintain them. That's why the Southern Nevada Water Authority has started offering homeowners money--40[cents] per sq. ft., with a $1,000 maximum--to rip up all or part of their lawn and replace it with less water-dependent indigenous flora...
...Vegas residents Jane and Peter Gillespie pocketed $1,000 for reducing their lawn by more than half, to 2,000 sq. ft., and are looking forward to decreased water bills. But both say they would have relandscaped for aesthetic reasons even without the financial incentive. Though they left some patches of grass, today they look out on a landscape of desert flowers and plants. The onset of summer may have other gardeners pouncing on brown areas with water and fertilizer, but the Gillespies' garden requires little additional sustenance. Since Las Vegas launched its water-conservation program in 1998, 3 million...
...sharks and manta rays that made the Maldives a high point of the diving world would depart for richer shores. In the end, the fish stayed and the coral is now growing back. But global climate changes remain a concern. The Maldives stretch 800 km, but less than 300 sq km is land, and it is all low-lying. A 1-m rise in sea level would swamp 80% of the country...