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...simply be a ruse: under pressure after the 1998 East Africa embassy bombings, the Taliban also proclaimed that Bin Laden had voluntarily left Afghanistan and was no longer their responsibility. All it meant was that he'd simply gone to ground. So, even if it's unlikely to weed out Bin Laden and his men, the air armada could yet be used to deliver harsh punishment to the Taliban...
...used to be that Holland was Western Europe's only tokers' paradise, courtesy of 900 cannabis cafes where adults can legally buy five grams of marijuana or hashish. But now, all over the Continent, the weed has won a new level of social acceptance. And where voters lead, politicians are following, as they ease up on criminality...
...cheap and won't take up much space in the backyard or basement or wherever you care to put a refrigerator-size box that isn't a refrigerator but can keep one cold. They will bring light to America's moonlit homesteads, pollutionless cars to its highways and stealth weed whackers to its suburbs. They are hydrogen-powered fuel cells, coming soon to an industry near...
...option. Lowering entrance barriers is one proven way to attract new talent: there is no doubt that the time and money involved in becoming certified, along with the poor quality of many teacher education programs, turns people away. But it is also true that such barriers tend to weed out the half- hearted: studies show that teachers who go through rigorous preparation programs are nearly three times more likely to stay in the profession long-term than those who don?t. What good will it do if we attract scores of new teachers only to have them leave...
...likely to weed out crooked officers. An estimated 75% of the military's cash comes from "nonbudgetary sources," as local economists euphemistically call it, which include logging in Indonesia's vanishing rain forests, extortion and prostitution. Jakarta's red-light district was shut down in the spring of 2000, not out of religious zeal but because the army and police quarreled over the profits. Wahid tried to pension off the worst offenders and replace them with more idealistic middle-ranking officers. Such attempts at reform may stop...