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Aerial views of urban areas magnify the damage seen on the ground. Whole sections of Pisco and Chincha have been leveled. The few buildings that remain standing are oddly off center, resembling a lopsided wood-block tower about to crumble. Schools and hospitals are gone and the Tambo de Mora prison, from which 600 inmates escaped after the earthquake, looks like a pile of rocks around which someone has incongruously built guard towers. Of the 91 government-run daycare centers in Pisco, only one remains...
...will operate under a packet of constitutional changes which will let the legislative body confirm the Prime Minister and most Cabinet members. But the changes also allow Nazarbayev to become President for life, should he so choose. His supporters argue that he must have that option in order to remain as a supervisor for the budding and still fragile democracy. With the election results, however, the new Majilis is now as totally controlled by the President, as the old one was. The victorious Nur-Otan party will fill 98 of the 107 seats, with nine remaining vacancies will be filled...
...which are ever reported in the media. "This is going to make news because it's a foreign woman who was kidnapped, but the reality is that it's a daily occurrence - not weekly, not monthly - for local nationals," says a Kabul-based businesswoman who asks to remain anonymous due to security fears. "Everyone who works in this town will have it happen one way or another, be it a kidnapping, a threat of kidnapping or a holdup," she adds, saying that in the past month there have been two kidnappings on her street, despite a police presence. "Security...
Right now, the only hope for a change is a prison sentencing reform committee set up by Gov. Eliot Spitzer that has only recently begun to hold preliminary meetings and whose final report is not expected until early 2008. The activists remain committed in their cause, but for now can only deal with the frustration of having a loved one jailed under what they feel are unfair rules. Critics say that the law ignores major drug dealers and only imprisons minor players in the drug trade. For this reason, they argue, it incarcerates a disproportionate number of minorities. Indeed, since...
...Kashmir Valley, weddings have become so prohibitively expensive that many women are forced to remain single if their parents are not well-to-do. "There are some 40,000 women over the age of 40 who have not been able to marry because their parents could not afford a traditional wedding," says Dr. Ihsan-ul-Haq, who set up a "marriage counseling cell" under the aegis of the Islamic Dawaa Centre to convince young people to opt for simpler, less expensive weddings...