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...kidnapping oil workers and supplying "security" services in exchange for not attacking installations. In some ways, the situation has been exacerbated since Nigeria's return to civilian rule. According to local lawyers and international human-rights groups such as Human Rights Watch and the London-based Stakeholder Democracy Network, ruling-party politicians have armed local youths - many of them gang members - to ensure that votes go their way. Weapons flooded the region before the 2003 poll, which in many parts of the Delta was less an election than an armed contest. Commonwealth observers found that in the Rivers state...
...sounds trite to say so, computers aren’t silly. They, and the network that connects them to one another, have revolutionized the meaning of the term “information.” Questions that once took days or weeks to answer now take seconds or minutes, and that doesn’t just mean shorter waits, it means we can ask many more questions. Scholarly research, certainly, hasn’t been the same since computerized catalogues like HOLLIS, but wikipedia throws into the mix something completely different altogether: a collaboratively generated store which will someday contain...
...They are an integral part of the international terror network," says the Western diplomat, acknowledging reports of the L.T.T.E. providing trainers to groups in Africa, the Middle East and Asia and exporting weapons to al Qaeda and Chechnya. "They are consultants, freight forwarders, money launderers and instructors. And they are extraordinarily well-funded...
...month in visitor dollars. J. Stephen Perry, head of the Convention and Visitors Board, says the empty and damaged hotels "are like Baghdad on a bad day." But for the national economy, what's more critical is that Katrina disrupted a vital node in the country's transport network. You name the commodity--coffee, fertilizer, lumber, steel, wheat--it ships through the Gulf's ports, rails and riverways. All told, Katrina knocked out a region that contributes $130 billion to GDP, roughly 1% of the national total, according to Economy.com Risk Management Solutions, a leading risk-assessment firm based...
...June, according to a senior close to the committee. The Class Committee returns a comedian to the podium for the fifth time in seven years. MacFarlane is a graduate of the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, which is also the setting of his cartoon show. The FOX network cancelled “Family Guy” in 2002, saying that the show had failed to garner consistently high ratings. But after the show surged in popularity on the Cartoon Network and through DVD sales, FOX brought it back on the air in 2005. MacFarlane’s humor...