Word: timor
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...fish are persuaded they're on a long journey by changes in light, temperature and current. Without leaving the tank, they swim out of the Australian Bight, south over the continental shelf and then west and north, around Western Australia and up to their spawning grounds near the Timor Sea. They've now spawned three times and produced eggs and larvae. The next step is to feed the millions of larvae the right plankton so they develop into tiny fish, eventually to be farmed in offshore pens. "Out of 10 steps, we're probably at No. 3 or 4," says...
...side. The people of Timor are on my side.' JOSE RAMOS-HORTA, President of East Timor, before returning to Dili, the nation's capital, to resume his presidential duties two months after being shot in a failed assassination attempt...
...idea of an "international responsibility to protect." Says de Waal: "For complex peacekeeping operations to work - i.e. those that involve civilian protection, rebuilding governance structures - they seem to need such a high ratio of input to outcome that they are feasible only in small places like Kosovo, East Timor, Sierra Leone ... and possibly the Comoros. Try doing it on a larger scale with a serious government in place and it's almost impossible. What is possible in cases like Darfur is more conventional peacekeeping based on an agreement between the parties, but trying to do peacekeeping plus protection plus justice...
...After taking power in last year's presidential election, Ramos-Horta laid plans to address East Timor's many problems. He vowed to focus on reconciliation after the 2006 riots, and promised to remake the security forces to make them representative of East Timorese from both the east and west ends of the country - an acrimonious ethnic divide. But rogue militias are still around, and the police are still drawn mainly from just the west side. Moreover, unemployment is rising ever higher, the judiciary remains weak, and thousands of refugees who fled past fighting continue to languish in makeshift camps...
...that the Australians have returned to provide temporary stability, Ramos-Horta, when he recovers, and Gusmão must move quickly and simultaneously on several fronts. They can draw on the money that will flow in from East Timor's offshore oil reserves to create a New Deal kind of job corps for former fighters and young gang members. They should implement an aggressive demobilization program. They should rapidly shore up East Timor's institutions by reducing the use of Portuguese and recruiting international judges and lawyers for the courts. Only then can there be real peace. And only then...