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...part of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), an island nation in the western Pacific Ocean that was formerly part of a U.N. trust territory administered by the U.S. after World War II. Under an agreement signed in 1986, the islands were granted independence but citizens were given the right to live and work in the U.S. and serve in its military. Initially, few enlisted. But these days, U.S. military recruiters visit local high schools annually and students sign up in droves. For FSM youths, military service means money, adventure and opportunity, a way off tiny islands with few jobs...
...landing, an explosion - it sounded like a firecracker - came from the left side of the fuselage just over the wing. Alain Ghonda - a 38-year-old, Silver Spring, Md., real estate consultant, who was sitting in seat 18H - immediately stood up, in defiance of the seat-belt sign, and looked to his left. Ghonda remained upright another minute and soon saw thick, dark gray smoke coming from the man in seat 19A. He pointed across the cabin and yelled, "Fire!" As he did, flames began to shoot from Abdulmutallab's lap. (See pictures of the life of privilege of Umar...
...poll has Crist and Rubio even at 43 points, a 10-point swing for both men since last August. It's a sign, says Aubrey Jewett, a Florida politics expert at the University of Central Florida in Orlando, that "political gravity has caught up with Crist," who until last summer had had approval ratings near 70%, but to many Floridians now seems at a loss about how to jump-start jobs. And it's just the latest warning that if Crist hopes to take his less strident and more inclusive brand of Republicanism to Washington - an approach, shared by California...
Some 14,000 people have been killed since President Felipe Calderón declared war on Mexico's drug cartels three years ago, sparking a brutal conflict that showed no sign of easing in 2009. Battered border cities like Juárez witnessed up to a dozen or more murders a day amid fighting between drug gangs and government forces--and, just as often, among rival cartels. Meanwhile, corruption in the ranks of police, army and government officials is so endemic that some analysts have declared the nation of 110 million a failed state. The U.S. has pledged $1.4 billion over three...
...center of the throng, a whirlpool of arms flailed in the air and crashed down on chests - a sign that not only the government but the green movement too could use Shi'ite traditions to stir passions...