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...display in one of the site's more innovative features, "Translating Uncle Sam," in which MNN's bloggers take raw data from government websites - whose comprehensiveness is eclipsed only by their impenetrability - and put it into user-friendly terms. Given the way people twist data, knotting them like Atlanta traffic, in environmental debates - especially those about global warming - this is a genuinely valuable service. Notes Babbit: "We'll have better graphs...
...Israel will call off its ground assault only if the Israeli envoy now in Cairo, Amos Gilad, returns with an iron-clad promise that Egypt or an international force can effectively stop Hamas' border traffic in weapons and medium-range rockets that are capable of striking deep into Israel. "We won't end the Gaza operation without some kind of suspension of the arms smuggling," one senior Israeli official told TIME. "The next phase is inevitable." Since the Israeli offensive began, the number of rockets fired by Hamas has tapered off from nearly 100 a day to around...
...starts, the riders' shouts become increasingly difficult to ignore. Wanda Nikkels, who lives in the red-light district, says the more beer passengers consume, the more obnoxious they get and the slower they pedal. They also have a habit of trampling flowers, steering into pedestrian-only zones and blocking traffic. "Recently there was a group of guys who parked their bike in front of some hookers and the girls made a live show and the boys kept screaming," she says. "It was just 12 o'clock in the afternoon...
...trying to limit disruptions to local residents. He requires his guides to stop their bikes near a restaurant or hotel every 20 minutes so passengers can relieve themselves indoors. "I hate when they pee on the street," he says. "It looks unprofessional." And, aware that drunken tourists sometimes block traffic when they struggle to pedal, he plans to add an electrical mechanism to the undercarriage this year to "help push the bike forward." In a city known for its tolerance, these efforts may be enough to assuage angry residents - and keep the beer flowing, and the bike rolling, for years...
...embed with his unit in north Baghdad last week. For many of the soldiers in the 2nd Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, this is a second or third deployment. Even so, they say it's significantly quieter this time than the last time. Sitting in Baghdad traffic, I watched as the gunner in the MRAP casually tossed a Red Bull out of the turret to an Iraqi pedestrian. The man on the sidewalk caught it as the U.S. soldiers giggled. Later at a dining facility at Camp Liberty, a U.S. base, I was stopped short...