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...midst of a humanitarian crisis. Its infrastructure is woefully unprepared to support the thousands of displaced people living in refugee camps scattered throughout the country. The World Food Program estimates that over a million people may face starvation over the next year, caused by crop failures and the toll exacted by continuous warfare. The government refuses to provide education for females and strips women of any semblance of equality. Apart from a flurry of protest when these issues were first exposed, they quickly faded below the threshold of the world's attention...

Author: By Brian J. Wong, | Title: Editor's Notebook: Misplaced Focus in Afghanistan | 3/14/2001 | See Source »

That Jesus wants to fight for America bears witness that, after centuries ?of a lifestyle set in stone, the walls of Batad are crumbling. Teenage big-city dreams, low-yield rice crops, worm erosion and tourism have all taken a toll. Despite unesco World Heritage Site classification, many terraces are in poor repair and protection efforts have been ineffective. Tourist impact is predictable: Batad's handful of caf?s and restaurants feature pizzas, and villagers don traditional costumes and head-dresses for photographs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Happily Stone Walled in the Cordillera | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...were armed with M-16s. (The murderers had machetes, axes and a few homemade guns.) They came back at about one in the morning, Diran says, finally stopping the slaughter. Forewarned that the police were on their way, the murderers climbed back into their trucks and fled. The final toll on the soccer field: 26 men, 64 women, 20 children and 8 babies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Field | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

...According to the American Cancer Society, 23,000 American women will be diagnosed with ovarian cancer this year, and around 14,000, or 61 percent, will die. The disease takes a high toll because its symptoms are so easily ignored, and the cancer in many newly diagnosed patients is often quite advanced. Needless to say, any news about prevention, no matter how rudimentary, is most welcome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Could a Common Painkiller Cut Your Risk of Ovarian Cancer? | 3/7/2001 | See Source »

...four devices (TV, VCR, DVD player and stereo, for example), but you don't have to push any buttons. Just tell it to change the channel, and it will change the channel. It also has a built-in clock, a reading light and a voice recorder for storing toll-free numbers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Brief: Mar. 5, 2001 | 3/5/2001 | See Source »

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