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...explained as tinderboxes of climate change lit by the spark of ancient rivalry. In Somalia, nearly two decades of anarchy have been exacerbated by eight years of drought. In Zimbabwe, relief agencies say President Robert Mugabe's disastrous rule is being overtaken by an even greater catastrophe, a three-month drought that wiped out the maize crop, fueling tensions between government-allied haves and opposition have-nots. Apart from drought, other environmental challenges can prove deadly. A growing number of experts believe the 1994 genocide in Rwanda is best understood as a contest between too many people on too little...
...left the confines of Cambridge for the muggy warmth of Lima, Peru.It was the fall of 1985, and she wanted to adopt a child. With little more than 40 $100 bills tucked into the bottom of her shoes, she boarded the airplane.But after she landed, Bartholet discovered over her three-month stay that many laws designed to help children were actually hurting them. Today, her first adopted son, Christopher, is 21 years old. But the laws handicapping the adoption process in Peru remain in place.That’s why Bartholet, who is now the Wasserstein public interest professor...
...Iraq war. But Americans remain understandably sensitive to troop needs. Which is why experts at the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal-leaning think tank, are busy supplying congressional leaders with ideas for a postveto compromise. The most promising notion--funding the war in three-month tranches, no withdrawal timetables attached--would allow opponents of Bush's policy to "gradually ratchet up the pressure" on Bush, says CAP senior fellow Brian Katulis, while avoiding an all-or-nothing showdown. After all, the Feed and Forage Act can provide only so much political cover. "We have some time," says...
...part, Kennedy must deliver Democrats who in strictly political terms have no reason to back reform. The new Congress, under Democratic control, has had a very effective three-month run blocking Bush on everything from domestic proposals to foreign affairs and the war in Iraq. Handing the President a win on a major issue like immigration reform in the run-up to the 2008 elections might be good policy, but it would be bad politics...
When biomedical researcher Keren Bismuth returned to France last year after completing the research for her doctorate at the U.S. government's prestigious National Institutes of Health in Maryland, one of the inconveniences she found was being put onto a series of three-month contracts rather than a permanent one. Finding work in London, Dublin, Montreal and other foreign cities, by contrast, seems much easier. Vladimir Cordier, an unemployed French graduate, got a job within five days of arriving at London's Waterloo Station on a one-way Eurostar ticket, and was so elated that he even wrote a book...