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| Disabled Athletes Find China Lacking |
(Sat, 06 Sep 2008)
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| There are some 83 million disabled people in China, but the country has never been particularly hospitable to them. Why bother building subway ramps and bus lifts, the attitude has long been, for people who aren't expected to leave home? But when Beijing was awarded the 2008 Summer Olympics, the Paralympic Games, an event featuring 4,000 disabled athletes, came along with it. So in the spirit of the 12-day competition, which opened on Saturday, China's government raced to bring Beijing up to international standards, creating 16 special bus lines for the athletes, installing street-crossing signals for the blind and adding wheelchair-friendly subway exits. It even outfitted a section of the Great Wall with a ramp and an elevator.
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Category: Periscope |
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| U.S. Military Role In Georgia Tricky |
(Sat, 06 Sep 2008)
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| Since Russia's rout of the Georgian armed forces in August, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin has suggested that Washington secretly provoked the conflict. But the Americans wanted no such thing, according to Lt. Col. Robert Hamilton, who ran the U.S. military training program in Georgia until six weeks ago. (He's now on a year's fellowship at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington.) "At no time did the U.S. attempt to train or equip the Georgian armed forces for a conflict with Russia," he says. "In fact, the U.S. deliberately avoided training capabilities [that] were seen as too provocative" to Russia. That's one reason Georgia's troops crumpled so fast—precisely because their training didn't cover conventional-warfare topics like tanks, artillery and helicopters.
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| The Taliban's No. 2 cash source: ransom kidnapping |
(Sat, 06 Sep 2008)
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| How ransom kidnappings, once a rarity in most of Afghanistan, have become a cash source second only to the narcotics trade for the country's insurgents
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Category: International |
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| New Pakistan President Faces Daunting Challenges |
(Sat, 06 Sep 2008)
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| That's how supporters of Benazir Bhutto's widower, Asif Ali Zardari, hailed his election to Pakistan's presidency. But a very rough road lies ahead.
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| Identifying Victims of Franco’s Spain |
(Fri, 05 Sep 2008)
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| A movement is afoot to identify and exhume the victims of Francisco Franco.
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Category: International |
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| MTV Sends Spoiled Brats Abroad for a Reality Check |
(Wed, 03 Sep 2008)
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| The surprisingly thoughtful reaction to 'Exiled,' a new MTV reality show that sends spoiled American teens to the Third World for some life lessons.
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Category: Entertainment |
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| Should Kashmir Break From India? |
(Wed, 03 Sep 2008)
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| With an eye on Georgia, Kashmiris once again entertain the prospect of independence. It's not a good idea.
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Category: International |
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| Thailand Declares Emergency Rule |
(Tue, 02 Sep 2008)
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| Thailand's emergency rule may play into the hands of rebels who want to bring the democratically elected government down.
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Category: International |
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| Zakaria: Russia's Strategic Blunder |
(Sat, 30 Aug 2008)
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| The Georgia attack will go down not as the dawn of a new era of Russian power but as a major strategic blunder.
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Category: Voices - Fareed Zakaria |
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| Pakistan: Assessing Zardari's Mental Health |
(Sat, 30 Aug 2008)
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| If Pakistan's upcoming election goes as expected, Asif Ali Zardari, widower of assassinated leader Benazir Bhutto, will succeed Pervez Musharraf as the country's next president, giving Zardari at least partial sway over the Muslim country's nuclear arsenal. Concerns spiked last week with the disclosure of medical records indicating that as recently as last year, doctors hired by Zardari had diagnosed him with mental problems including dementia, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder. While Zardari's spokespeople say he has been cured, multiple U.S. officials, among them Rep. Pete Hoekstra, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, told NEWSWEEK that word of Zardari's mental-health history took them by surprise. "Typically," said Hoekstra, "[The U.S.] wouldn't want that kind of person" involved in a nuclear chain of command.
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Category: Periscope |
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| U.S. Video Blogger Recounts His Beijing Arrest |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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| An independent journalist discusses his arrest in Beijing.
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Category: International |
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| Brazil: The Resurrection of Rio de Janeiro |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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| The fight to revive Brazil's legendary city
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Category: International |
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| Dickey: Obama’s Diplomacy, McCain’s National Security |
(Thu, 28 Aug 2008)
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| When it comes to foreign policy, McCain is from Mars, Obama is from … Earth.
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Category: Politics: Conventions |
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| Russian Relations Become a Hot Campaign Topic |
(Wed, 27 Aug 2008)
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| America's relationship with Russia has come to dominate the foreign-policy debate at the Democratic National Convention.
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Category: Politics: Conventions |
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| Don't Ask, Do Kill: Gays Persecuted in Iraq |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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| Nobody wants to talk about gays in Iraq, much less who is killing them.
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Category: Iraq War |
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| Restoring Iraq's Golden Mosque in Samarra |
(Tue, 26 Aug 2008)
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| Letter from Samarra: At Iraq's Ground Zero, too, the rebuilding process is slow and far from finished.
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Category: Iraq War |
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| Nawaz Sharif Goes, Zardari Stays, Pakistan Suffers |
(Mon, 25 Aug 2008)
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| Nawaz Sharif pulls out of Pakistan's government, leaving a dangerously feeble regime even weaker.
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Category: International |
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| Pakistan's Musharraf: Lucrative Speaking Fees? |
(Sat, 23 Aug 2008)
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| The departing president's next conquest: the speaker's circuit.
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Category: International |
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| Q&A: Asif Ali Zardari on Pervez Musharraf’s Resignation |
(Sat, 23 Aug 2008)
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| Asif Ali Zardari, once jailed on corruption charges, could be Pakistan's next president.
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| Marine Commander Wants More Forces in Afghanistan |
(Sat, 23 Aug 2008)
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| As the military considers an Afghanistan 'surge', the head of the U.S. Marines pays a visit, and finds that far more troops are needed on the ground.
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Category: International |
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