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...Sri Lanka: Peace at Hand? Kashmir: Election Wreckers...
...maybe he was on a diet, but she too asked him if he wanted to eat. "I talked to him in French, assuming he was French. He said he didn't speak French. I wanted to be nice, so I asked where he was from, and he told me Sri Lanka." She didn't believe him. And she was right. For he turned out to be Reid, now 29, a British citizen who investigators believe was an operative in the al-Qaeda network...
Other technologies can work their own little miracles. Micro-hydroelectric plants are already operating in numerous nations, including Kenya, Sri Lanka and Nepal. The systems divert water from streams and rivers and use it to run turbines without complex dams or catchment areas. Each plant can produce as much as 200 kilowatts--enough to electrify 200 to 500 homes and businesses--and lasts 20 years. One plant in Kenya was built by 200 villagers, all of whom own shares in the cooperative that sells the power...
...stoves that convert dung into fuel. More than a million rural homes in developing countries get electricity from solar cells. "The potential is enormous," says Anil Cabraal, an energy specialist for the World Bank, which has helped finance 500,000 residential solar systems from Argentina to Sri Lanka...
...Fund, according to the U.N. $107 billion is the size of WorldCom's assets stated in its bankruptcy filing, marking the biggest corporate bust in U.S. history-the amount is almost double that of bankrupt Enron's 48 bullet-proof security cars were purchased in 2000 and 2001 by Sri Lankan president Chandrika Kumaratunga costing $25 million 90 young Kabul boys were circumcised by Turkish army doctors on July 23rd as a goodwill gesture towards local Muslim families unable to finance the religious procedure 9 is the number of fetuses a Sudanese woman is pregnant with after undergoing lengthy infertility...