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...native Kenya, Wangari Maathai has been arrested, beaten unconscious and called subversive. Last week, her fortunes took a different turn when she became the first environmental campaigner - and the first African woman - to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. On Saturday, Maathai talked with TIME's Stephan Faris under a tree outside the offices of her Green Belt Movement in Nairobi. KOFI ANNAN, NELSON MANDELA, MOTHER TERESA, AND NOW YOU. HOW DOES IT FEEL? It is the kind of thing that I'm sure will sink in slowly. But right now, it's like a dream. When you are involved...
...onlookers, a man tossed the boy into the air as another took aim and shot him dead. "It was the worse thing I ever saw," Haroun says softly, casting her eyes downward as she hugs her baby tightly to her breast. --With reporting by Massimo Calabresi/Washington, Sam Dealey/al-Fashir and Stephan Faris/Bahai
...just perception ... every four years we go, Wow! Women are doing really well. But women are always doing well; it's just not being reported," she says. What's different in the pool, she insists, is a new style of coaching adopting techniques from sports beyond swimming; Stephan Widmer (Lenton) and Shannon Rollason (Henry and Mills) exemplify this cross-training approach. Gould also mentions the feminine touch of Ian Thorpe's coach, Tracey Menzies: "The younger coaches are trying new things away from the (conventional) culture." After their performances in the Athens hothouse, the women of Australian swimming - and their...
Meanwhile, other students performed skits in a rehearsal room at the Kresge Auditorium. Stephan Silva, a sixth grader who anchored a mathematically oriented “nightly news” program that featured graphs on politics, entertainment, sports and the weather, said he had practiced for hours for four straight days to nail his part...
...They have been disappointed by Germany's "green card" program of five-year residency permits, which expires at the end of this year. Since it was implemented four years ago, only 16,500 green cards have been issued. "We're heavily dependent on foreign workers coming to Germany," says Stephan Pfisterer, head of labor and education for Bitkom, an IT industry trade group, "and this law will meet almost all our requirements." Not everyone is so enthusiastic. Some economists say the law does not go far enough and that allowing potential immigrants to be evaluated by civil servants...