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...days, Australian troops and UN police have been hunting the band of rebels thought to be behind the attacks on Gusmao and Ramos-Horta, who is recovering from his wounds in an Australian hospital. A spokesman for the ISF confirmed the search of Dos Santos' house, and said such operations would continue. The Chief of Australia's Defence Force, Air Chief Marshal Angus Houston, said that Australian forces "will assist authorities in bringing these people to justice." But as Saturday's raid demonstrates, it will be no easy task...
...UN has designated 2008 as the Year of the Potato, exhorting food experts to examine "the potential contribution of the potato to defeating hunger." A worthy cause, indeed, but one to pursue with caution. The best efforts of breeders have failed to improve greatly the disease resistance of the potato, which is the world's most chemically dependent crop - the global cost of fungicides alone stands at over $2 billion a year. And although the potato may, as Reader puts it, be "the best-all round bundle of nutrition known," diet gurus regularly denounce it for raising blood sugar levels...
...likely embarrassed that this wonderful and energizing primary, in which a record number of Democrats have voted, might be decided by the gut feelings of DNC officials, or by which Cabinet position a senator thinks he can get if Obama or Clinton moves into the White House. How un-Democratic...
...What’s worse, the Democratic Party knows it’s un-Democratic. In 1968, after the ludicrous nomination of then-Vice President Hubert Humphrey, the Democratic Party reformed the selection process to give more “power to the people.” Unlike the past, when nominations were decided by the elites of the Democratic Party (think “superdelegates”), votes in the primaries and caucuses would actually receive their due. Hence 3,253 delegates and 796 superdelegates...
...Emerald Network or Holland's Toward a New Start, a group for Moroccans who, in the words of founder Ahmed Larouz, are "the sort of people who say, 'I want to be CEO of Philips.'" Parisian professionals go to Les Dérouilleurs, a networking salon whose name (the Un-Rusty Ones) jabs at the stereotype of les rouilleurs - jobless Maghrebi youth "rusting away" in the banlieues...