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...come as a surprise to many Americans that fitness and weight-lifting are fast-growing crazes in Kabul and a popular cult figure is California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. The governor's likeness can be found at makeshift gyms throughout the city, which use cinder blocks and old Soviet tank parts for equipment. To many young Afghans, Schwarzenegger embodies the virtues of discipline, goal-setting and accomplishment. Afghans prefer the U.S. to the Taliban, but they have suffered too long from 40% unemployment and a reconstruction that never arrived. Ralph Lopez, CAMBRIDGE, MASS...
Only Hollywood would call him Willy. The owner of Keiko realized that he was going to die, because he was underweight, he had a skin disease, he was eating frozen fish in an artificial saltwater tank at high altitude, breathing the most polluted air on the planet in Mexico City. So they gave him away. They were not ocean people, and they asked us if we wanted to help them. I ended up on the board of the Free Willy-Keiko foundation. And we ended up doing everything...
...moved him to a new tank in Newport, Oregon, and for two years we made him gain a ton of weight, got rid of his skin disease, trained him to catch live fish, and gave him exercise. We got him used to real saltwater. And then when he was ready, we put him on the plane and flew him to Iceland, where he had been captured when he was two years old. There, little by little, we adapted him to being in his natural environment. On the 5th of July, 2002 - I was there - he decided to say goodbye...
...they called it submarino, a form of simulated drowning that has much the same effect as what we call waterboarding. During Augusto Pinochet's 17-year-long dictatorship, thousands of Chileans were detained by the military and subjected to torture. During the submarino, they were forcibly submerged in a tank of water, over and over again, until they were on the edge of drowning. (The Chilean military liked to foul the water with urine, feces or worse, something that-so far-hasn't been known to be a part of U.S. waterboarding of terrorism suspects.) Submarino became a popular tool...
...entered the no-fire zone on Monday morning. "Full firepower is being deployed by the [Sri Lankan army]," the site said. "Multi-Barrel Rocket Launcher fire, shelling, RPG fire and gunfire have hit several places causing heavy civilian casualties." The Sri Lankan military said that Tigers used a battle tank to fire at the troops and escaping civilians; footage of the firing obtained by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) was later released by the airforce. According to the Defense Ministry, Tigers also carried out three suicide attacks as the civilians began to flee across the frontline. Army sources...