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...city of Najaf, we had gone to see Abu Mohammed, a commander in the al Mahdi Army. He was to be our connection with the underground network of Iraqis who knew how to navigate the American cordon around Najaf. Abu Mohammed explained that we would have to wait for a lull in the fighting if we wanted to cross the lines. The commander also said we might have to wait a long time before we got our chance. Young Mahdi Army fighters with wild eyes stopped by the office to show us their captured weapons. In the late afternoon...
...their favorite foods are disappearing from the landscape. Both the goitered and jeeber gazelles have been virtually wiped out by nomadic hunters. Cheetahs have been forced to survive on urial and ibex--mountain sheep and mountain goats--which are impossible to chase on steep, stony slopes. "Cheetahs have to wait for them to come down to the foothills in search of water holes," says Hunter. "It means they have a narrow hunting window, and that is depressing their population." To rehabilitate the prey, which are all protected species under Iranian law, the scientists are pushing the government to better enforce...
...call the pogroms genocide--in part because doing so could oblige the international community to intervene to save the Darfurians." Excuse me, but what is so wrong with intervention? Already 10,000 people have been killed and a million forced to leave their homes. We cannot afford to wait for 500,000 people to die and for more women and children to be raped before the international community intervenes. Where are the leaders of the larger, more powerful countries of Africa while the atrocities are going on? African nations and organizations should be called to account for letting them happen...
...forged it by co-founding, with Ed Wray, London-based Betfair, the peer-to-peer cybercasino that has done for gambling what eBay did for garage sales. On Betfair there's no house; the site's 250,000 registered customers simply post their bets and wait for someone to take them on. Betfair charges a commission on each winning bet; the more you bet, the lower the commission. When the site was launched in 2000, with $1.8 million raised from Black's and Wray's network of contacts, it was taking less than $90,000 in weekly bets...
...firm searches for stock pairs that have diverged, says there are hundreds of pairs a day that present opportunity. To keep it simple, he says, stick with pairs of big stocks in the same industry and pairs with similar long-term trading histories. Put them on your screen and wait for them to get out of whack--either when they go in opposite directions or when one severely lags the other for at least three days in a row. Unwind the trade if the divergence persists and your losses reach 3% or after the stocks are back in synch...