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...world's heroin. While the U.S. and Afghan governments have announced measures to curb poppy cultivation, a visit to Helmand reveals how challenging such a campaign would be. Just outside Lashkar Gah, the provincial capital, lies a vast expanse of poppy farms. A glut has driven down the market price, but the flower is still the country's most profitable crop, according to farmers. Officials predict this year's yield in Helmand will be double last year...
...have to give better experiences for people when they turn on the radio. That's content driven. And we have to figure out ways, which we have, to put our content into other devices: cell phones, online...
...four films released under their new banner, two cadged Best Actress nominations: Transamerica and, for Judi Dench, Mrs. Henderson Presents. Ferocity over likability could also lift Weisz, in The Constant Gardener, over adorable Amy Adams, in Junebug. The same logic applies to both Actress categories: do you want the driven idealist or the down-home cutie? As for Supporting Actor, Hollywood may want to reward George Clooney, the hunk with a liberal heart; but Gyllenhaal really deserves...
...members to swallow in the wake of the repeatedly amateurish White House handling of just about everything for the last year, ranging from the Harriet Miers nomination to the federal response to Hurricane Katrina to the dead-from-the-start Social Security reform initiative. Bush's performance has driven the entire party's poll numbers down, and with it many members' odds of re-election. Consequently, Republican confidence in the White House has crashed to an all-time low. "The White House has a huge challenge on its hands," Rep. Tom Cole of Oklahoma told TIME.com. "They don't have...
...proposed the second no-confidence motion, cautioned against overextending the national influence of Summers’ resignation. “There is no reason to start imagining a rash of copy-cat motions,” she wrote in an e-mail yesterday. Krauss said he was driven to ask for the vote against Case President Edward M. Hundert by concerns over fiscal management and administrative secrecy, as well as Hundert’s approach to relationships with the faculty. “I thought that I could take advantage of the momentum” of Summers’ announcement...