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...project. This is not the Kenya of big skies and herds of animals. It is real life, up close as seen by residents of one of Africa's most violent and dire corners. The teenagers - many as young as 13 - had little formal schooling and few future prospects. Most spent their days at the Mathare Youth Sports Association, an activity center which agreed to house Wong's classes. Yet amidst their grim surroundings, the youth captured humor and beauty in their photos. Peter Ndolo, now 21, one of eight children, photographed a boy clutching a bright yellow daisy, which fills...
...Republicans, meanwhile, struggled to avoid panic. House Republican leader John Boehner called the results a "wake-up call." The head of the GOP election effort, Oklahoma Rep. Tom Cole, told his members to "take stock of their campaigns." His message was unmistakable: The national party cannot protect them. Republicans spent at least $1.3 million to defeat Childers, and even flew in Vice President Dick Cheney for a last-minute appearance. While he did not personally visit, Presidential candidate John McCain did record robocalls as part of the effort. "Voters remain pessimistic about the country and the Republican Party in general...
...Obama in down-ballot races, and the power of Republican interest groups to win back voters. Republican candidate Greg Davis ran television ads showing Obama's pastor, Jeremiah Wright, damning America, and quoting Obama's comment about bitter America. At the same time, Freedom Watch, an independent conservative group, spent close to $500,000 on ads saying that Childers would raise taxes. Neither effort seems to have had its intended effect...
...fact, McCain has spent the majority of his life living with the physical disabilities and the mental trauma he suffered as a young Navy pilot. When his plane was shot down over Hanoi in 1967, McCain broke both his arms and his right leg at the knee. He was stabbed twice by a bayonet, had his shoulder smashed by a rifle butt and endured the angry kicks and punches of the mob that discovered him. Those injuries, along with the more calculated torture that followed during 5½ years of captivity, left him unable to raise either arm more than...
...material is obviously misidentification of fairly ordinary objects: aircraft lights, meteorites, the planet Venus," says Nick Pope, a former MoD employee who, as head of the ministry's UFO program for three years in the early 1990s, is well acquainted with these early files. But the longer Pope spent studying the data, the more he came to believe that some UFO sightings really can't be explained by terrestrial activity - a conclusion that earned him a reputation as "Britain's Fox Mulder." "You've got to really drill down into it to get the good stuff, but the good stuff...