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...Taliban, who used public stonings as a penalty for illicit sex, is out of power in Afghanistan, but the centuries-old punishment is still alive in other parts of the Islamic world. It has spread most recently to sub-Saharan Africa, a region once known for its moderate brand of Islam. Stoning is not actually mentioned in the Koran, but the harsh treatment the holy book prescribes for sex outside of marriage has been invoked to justify what Amnesty International calls "the ultimate form of torture...
...military dictator Zia ul-Haq introduced shari'a in 1979. While there are no confirmed cases of the punishment's being carried out, Pakistani women complain that rape victims are routinely charged with adultery, sentenced to death and then left to languish in jail. The penalty is newest in sub-Saharan Africa, where it has been introduced in Sudan and Somalia over the past decade, though in practice it is rarely used. In Nigeria, the introduction of shari'a is as much about politics as ideology. Worried that power was slipping to southern Christians, the northern Muslim elite has embraced...
...Send Me Bruckheimer and Bay! Time to rewrite those history books; earlier this week divers confirmed the discovery of a downed Japanese midget submarine just outside Pearl Harbor. The sunken sub appears to corroborate a long-held theory that the U.S., not the Japanese, fired the first shot in the Pacific war. The submarine is believed to have gone down just hours before the Japanese began their surprise aerial attack. Let's just hope this new information doesn?t mean we have to watch a remake of "Pearl Harbor...
...sub-Saharan Africa 34% Central Africa 51% East Africa 43% Southern Africa 43% West Africa...
Bioengineering has tremendous potential in the developing world. The U.S., Canada, China and Argentina contain 99% of the global area of genetically modified crops, whereas yields of sorghum and millet in sub-Saharan Africa have not increased since the 1960s. Green groups hoping to earn the trust of the developing world should lobby hard for the resources of Big Agriculture to be plowed into discovering crop varieties that can handle drought and thrive on small-scale farms...