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...founder of the Green Belt Movement, says the Nobel committee "is going beyond war and looking at what humanity can do to prevent war: managing our natural resources." She has inspired devotion but also controversy, suggesting that AIDS is a biological weapon that the West planted in Africa to wipe out the black race...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Seeds of Inspiration and Controversy | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rebels With Conflicting Causes | 10/17/2004 | See Source »

...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?...

Author: By The Crimson Staff, | Title: The Triumph of Red Sox Nation | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions: Wangari Maathai | 10/10/2004 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: VANISHING ALASKA | 10/4/2004 | See Source »

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