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...Aslan, a senior officer in the anti-Russian forces during the first Chechen war from 1994 to 1996. He's clearly still in touch with Maskhadov's guerrillas. Aslan recalls that after the first war, he and other officers suspicious of the Wahhabis' growing clout volunteered to help wipe them out. Maskhadov seemed to agree with the idea, Aslan says, but ultimately, "he was too cowardly to give us the order." These days, the Wahhabis are clearly the more powerful of the two rebel factions. Despite Moscow's claims that life in Chechnya is returning to normal, clashes between guerrillas...
...It’s sad when you’re born into an allegiance that forces you to actually root for the evil empire—as many New Yorkers seem to feel they must. We can only imagine the painstaking mental work Yankees fans have to do to wipe off the smarm that comes from supporting a bunch of pretty-boys go through the motions—just in case you forgot, the Yankees, supposed superstars, haven’t actually won a World Series since 2000. But the Red Sox will provide relief from this affliction?...
...mountains that our forefathers had, they would not be raping that mountain. Instead, we view that mountain as a resource to exploit rather than as something to appreciate because it gave us water and wood. YOU'VE SAID AIDS IS A BIOLOGICAL WEAPON MANUFACTURED BY THE DEVELOPING WORLD TO WIPE OUT THE BLACK RACE. do you still believe that? I have no idea who created aids and whether it is a biological agent or not. But I do know things like that don't come from the moon. I have always thought that it is important to tell people...
...Thai officials, especially at the highest levels, are now taking the threat seriously. Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra has pledged to wipe out bird flu in the country by the end of October, and last week enlisted more than 900,000 volunteers to cull sick chickens and do spot checks on potential new outbreaks. His biggest challenge is to get poultry-dependent villages like Srisomboon, where Sakuntala Premphasri lived, onto the program. Villagers told a TIME reporter that even though they knew their chickens were likely dying of bird flu in August, they did not alert livestock officials because they believed...
...washed away the school playground and destroyed $100,000 worth of boats, hunting gear and fish-drying racks. The remnants of multimillion-dollar seawalls, broken up by the tides, litter the beach. "It's scary," says village official Luci Eningowuk. "Every year we agonize that the next storm will wipe...