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This distance is ameliorated in part by the super convenient shuttle. When you have a 10 a.m. class in Northwest Labs during the nastiest sleet-rain-blizzard in February, you’ll thank the River Gods that you don’t live in some of the other River Houses, which are roughly equidistant to the Yard but sadly shuttle-less...
...tribal system of maliks," says General Khan. "Now any crook with a cell phone can call up a gang of his militant friends for any kind of mischief, and everyone is too afraid to stop them." His former colleague, Brigadier Mahmoud Shah, formerly in charge of security for the Northwest Frontier Province, concurs. "It's a twilight zone up there," he says, even in the areas recently cleared of militants. (See TIME's cover story on taking the fight to the Taliban in Afghanistan...
Washington agrees with this urgency. In 2007, the Bush Administration approved $750 million to be spent in the Northwest Frontier Province over the next five years to catapult the poor, lawless region into the 21st century, creating schools and jobs and repairing the battered civil society. But because of fears that there were no safeguards to keep corrupt officials from siphoning off the funds, and because much of the region has been off-limits to aid workers due to militancy, only a tenth of that amount has been spent. Nor can aid wait: the U.N. reckons that over 1.63 million...
...says Rockwell. Most intriguing of all is the possibility that the two species might interbreed. "These guys only split off evolutionarily about 150,000 years ago, so hybrids are viable," he says. That's no speculation: DNA analysis has proven that a bear shot in 2006 in Canada's Northwest Territories was part-grizzly, part-polar bear; the names "grolar bear" and "pizzly" have been floated in reference to it. (The hunter who killed the animal was spared a fine because the local laws against hunting bear apply only to grizzlies.) "I think it will be a rare event," says...
...underwater plates shake, they push the water above them up, creating the beginning of a wave, not unlike dropping a stone in a bathtub. The wave then travels away from the epicenter of the quake. In the case of the Chile temblor, the waves are moving in a northwest direction across the Pacific, putting nearly every shoreline along the ocean at some risk...