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...civilians by men possessed by a theocratic ideology. It was an invasion--the violation of sovereign American soil, the erasure of a visible monument to American success and energy and civilization. It was a crime--the filling of the air of a great and free city with the irradiated dust of innocent human lives. It was a statement--that radical Islam intends to attack and destroy the very principles of the Enlightenment that underpin the American experiment--freedom of religion, of conscience, toleration and secularism. The appropriate response to this attack is therefore not grief or remembrance or sadness...
...national army. In the meantime, Khalil can't afford the pen and notebook he promised his son for school, just as the Afghan government is unable to fulfill its promises of better days for Khoshal Khan A. But Khalil keeps building, his hopes slowly rising once again from the dust...
...colors and patterns you see--the visible evidence of the complex working of the natural systems that make our planet habitable--seem both vast and precise, powerful and yet somehow fragile. You see volcanoes spewing smoke, hurricanes roiling the oceans and even fine tendrils of Saharan dust reaching across the Atlantic. You also see the big, gray smudges of fields, paddies and pastures, and at night you marvel at the lights, like brilliant diamonds, that reveal a mosaic of cities, roads and coastlines--impressive signs of the hand of humanity. Scientists tell us that our hand is heavy, that...
There is a simple economic explanation for why many of China's cities have become shrouded in gray clouds of dust: it's cheap to pollute. Millions of Chinese drive mopeds and old automobiles that don't have catalytic converters, and much of the nation's electricity comes from coal-fired power plants. Technology from the 1950s, after all, is at bargain-basement prices. But that's because the prices don't reflect the hidden costs of air pollution: deaths from lung illnesses and millions of dollars wasted on health-care bills and lost worker productivity. The situation...
...road, and weaves through barricades bristling with grenade launchers and Soviet-era machine guns. The vehicle slams to a halt and an American named Charlie jumps out, his auburn beard and gold-framed Oakleys flashing in the sun. I ask him what he's doing in this rugged, dust-coated part of Afghanistan. He answers, "I work for the government...