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...Monday, reversing an earlier hard-line stance, Florida's Democratic attorney general urged canvassing boards to include ballots from overseas military personnel - even if the ballots were not correctly postmarked. "No man or woman in the military service of this nation should have his or her vote rejected solely due to the absence of a postmark," Bob Butterworth told reporters. Overseas military ballots are often mailed without postmarked or postmarked late because of geographic or security restraints...
...Ordering a cease-fire without appearing to gain much in return was always going to test Arafat's political authority even among his own supporters, and not only the opposition Hamas and Islamic Jihad factions which have openly challenged Arafat's leadership but even the rank-and-file militiamen of his own Fatah organization have vowed to defy his cease-fire call. High-profile terror attacks have until now been the Islamists most effective weapon against any moves toward peace; they're not unpopular on the Palestinian street, and the rage they generate in Israel creates irresistible political pressure...
...Europe, of course, is way ahead of the U.S. in terms of cutting its reliance on fossil fuels, but even then it remains doubtful whether many EU countries will achieve their own targets. So even if the Europeans fail to secure U.S. agreement on cuts, it?s unlikely to muster the will or the means to impose any penalties. In other words, saving the planet may just have to wait...
...makes $475 a month, three times the salary of a doctor right out of medical school, and his parents are getting marriage offers from families with available daughters. Dubey is the content manager for a portal providing crop and weather information for Indian farmers. Jobs like his didn't even exist in India a year or so ago. But they do now, because India's Internet economy is becoming a success story of global proportions...
...satellite TV came to the Warana sugarcane-growing region of Maharashtra state, some 250 miles southeast of Bombay, and the ground started moving under the farming village of Pokhale. "Even one-year-olds started shaking their hips like those MTV girls," says farmer Shantappa Ghewari. More than a year later, another magical box was installed in the village, and Pokhale became one of 70 villages in the region to take part in the "Wired Village Warana," a $600,000 information-technology project initiated by the federal government. All the villages in the area have computer kiosks that are linked...