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...Africa in the 19th century. The partitioning rarely followed tribal or cultural boundaries, and created some of the most nonsensical and least workable international borders in the world. Yet since independence in the 1960s, Africa's nations have held those borders sacred, fearful that unpicking a single seam might unravel the whole patchwork. On a map, one of the more irrational colonial creations is the West African nation of Gambia. Save for a brief Atlantic coastline, the slender country, which wraps around the banks of the River Gambia and was formed after British traders set up a series of posts...
...wrote about the safety concerns plaguing nasa's space-shuttle program [Aug. 8]. I was among the millions of people around the world who watched the touchdown of the shuttle Discovery on television. The craft's journey to space and back was another stride in mankind's effort to unravel the mystery of the universe. We hope the benefits from the efforts in space will also reach us in rural Africa, where poverty, disease and hunger are making life for the majority of people not worth living. How we wish that the billions of dollars spent on the Discovery...
...fully open to the views of his fellow judges." As for precedent, Roberts affirmed that it "plays an important role in promoting the stability of the legal system." If nothing else, that was politically shrewd, since it heartened liberals, who felt he wouldn't set out to unravel every regulation of the past 30 years, but also conservatives, who felt reassured that he wouldn't use a seat on the bench to confect a constitutional right to gay marriage...
England's Yorkshire dales have their bleak moods, but they're not nearly as haunted as those that drive the melancholy head of the Eastvale murder squad. In his 15th procedural, Strange Affair, Banks must plumb his own brooding depths to unravel the disappearance of his brother. The crimes in this series can be grisly, but pleasure comes from watching the nuances of Banks' character rise to the surface...
...strength. His sagging approval ratings, the public displeasure at events in Iraq and his inability to win support for his Social Security plan suggest that Bush doesn't have the leverage he once did: he could not afford a nominee so toxic to Democrats that the move would unravel the truce struck by a bipartisan group of 14 Senators and possibly trigger a filibuster...