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...people and, with the collapse of prices for commodities like tea and coffee, has become one of the most important sources of foreign exchange. Those benefits are now at risk. As for Bali, the financial effects of the bombs are likely to be catastrophic. Employment on the island may fall more than 20% next year, according to a model developed by Thea Sinclair and Guntur Sugiyarto at the University of Nottingham in Britain. And since Bali was a flagship destination not just for Indonesia--more than half the visitors to the country in 2001 spent time on the island...
...fewer than 2,734 dams. That's why last week's surprise announcement of the first-ever dismantling of a Japanese dam is being hailed as a watershed. Kumamoto prefecture governor Yoshiko Shiotani declared that the Arase dam, which spans the Kumagawa River on Japan's southern island of Kyushu, would be torn down beginning in 2010. It's about time. Nearly 50 years old, the dam generates less than 1% of the region's electricity and would be more expensive to maintain than destroy. Never popular with locals, the Arase has also been blamed for exacerbating rather than controlling...
...making processes. "This will from now on be a fundamentally different union," said British Prime Minister Tony Blair. "It has to be." One of the 10 new members is Cyprus, which has been split between Greeks and Turks for a generation. The U.N. pushed a plan to end the island's 28-year division in November, hoping that the prospect of E.U. membership would jumpstart negotiations to settle Europe's longest-running standoff. That trap never sprang. As promised, the E.U. will now admit the Greek part of Cyprus, but urged both sides to keep working toward a deal...
...alleging that documents produced by the UNHCR to prove their case are forged. Hasan does acknowledge that initial U.N. queries about Jacinto prompted him to relocate the boy to another orphanage administered by Hasan's Lemorai Foundation. A U.N. official says they believe Jacinto was moved to the remote island of Sumbawa to complicate their efforts to secure his return. "I don't understand the game the UNHCR is playing," Hasan says. "I'm no destroyer or kidnapper. I'm just a person trying to do some good in the world by giving children a better future. Ask the children...
...when Hasan is near, Zachariah lowers his eyes and tries to slip away, only to be drawn back again when a visitor produces a personal letter from East Timor addressed to Hasan, complete with photos of villagers back home. The letter prompts Hasan's wife, who is from the island, to burst into tears, but Hasan shouts at her and she retreats into a rear room. Zachariah picks up the letter. Hasan has repeatedly told the teenager?who was spirited away by Hasan's associates in 1999 without his father's acquiescence?that his parents are dead. Zachariah asks...