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...refusal to represent China at the upcoming Asian Games. The loss of the 7 ft. 1 in. star?who has denied rumors of impending defection to the U.S.?opens a gap in the Chinese team's "Walking Great Wall," which also includes this year's top nba draft pick, Yao Ming...
...Qaeda may have lost its rear bases in Afghanistan and its leaders may be on the run, but it has plenty of cash. That's the bad news from a draft United Nations report on terrorist funding due to be released Thursday. The draft report notes that despite 144 U.N. member states having frozen some $112 million in suspected al-Qaeda assets since September 11, the terror network continues to enjoy access to tens of millions of dollars in secretly managed investments - estimated to be worth somewhere between $30 million and $300 million. Al Qaeda's coffers have always been...
...also establishing agricultural and health projects to help local people replace lost income. "The people have been living off illegal forest activity, so going back to farming is less money," explains David Mead, who runs the program in Cambodia. "They don't like that." One plan involves buying draft animals to help locals plow rice paddies so that they will no longer need to practice slash-and-burn agriculture at the forest's edge...
Before graduating from college last spring I worked with the Yale Student Environmental Coalition to draft a pledge for young people to sign. Called the Recognition of Responsibility, the pledge is a commitment from our generation to be accountable and a challenge to our elders to help us achieve this goal and to lead by example. It includes a list of ways to live more sustainably--simple but fundamental things like reducing household garbage, consuming less, not relying on cars so much, eating locally grown food, carrying a reusable cup and, most important, getting out into nature. (For the full...
...Verbatim "We're going to beat him up pretty bad." BEN WALLACE, Detroit Pistons forward, on the U.S. national team's plans to give Chinese center and No. 1 draft pick Yao Ming a hot N.B.A. welcome in an exhibition game...