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...there wasn't much of a home for movies like that. I also remember getting a lot of Hitchcock with my parents and discovering Robert Altman, which was huge for me. Watching McCabe and Mrs. Miller for the first time - when I thought I knew what a Western was - totally redefined the genre...
...that hunting and habitat destruction have left 48% of the world's 634 primate types vulnerable to extinction. Asian primates are in particular trouble, with 71% of species threatened. But amid the grim data, a bright spot emerged: researchers conducting a separate census said they had discovered 125,000 western lowland gorillas in the Republic of the Congo, significantly boosting a population previously thought to be about...
...China An Extremist Strike Terrorists struck on the eve of the Beijing Olympics when two men in Kashgar, a city in western China's Xinjiang province, killed 16 policemen and wounded 16 more by ramming them with a truck and detonating homemade bombs. Officials said the attackers were Uighurs, an Islamic ethnic minority that has long bristled at China's repressive rule. The attack--perpetrated by extremists whom authorities linked to a group known to pose a threat, in a region long considered a possible target--undermined Chinese assurances that stringent security measures would safeguard the Games...
...When Warren hears that other NGOs in Rwanda repeatedly told TIME that PEACE could offer no working examples of tangible aid-and-development projects, he laughs for 10 full seconds. "You were talking to the wrong guys," he says. Most aid-and-development experts, he claims, depend on Western-style measurements and reports. Rwandan churches, he says, have neither the time nor the obligation to produce them. Moreover, he asserts that executing a program involving spiritual goals through churches initially produces "results that tend not to be programmatic - they tend to be life change." (For instance, PEACE has recorded...
...people who were allegedly members of an extremist gang suspected of pulling off robberies in Europe in the mid-1990s to bankroll a plot to assassinate Moroccan ministers and police chiefs. "We also know that Moroccans are feeding into the pipeline of foreign fighters going to Iraq," says a Western diplomat in Rabat. A disproportionate number of them, he adds, end up as suicide bombers. Police say that since February they have arrested more than 70 suspected extremists and broken up two jihadi cells that funneled recruits to Iraq...