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Wasserman said Frondel made reference to a ray gun possessed by a popular comic strip hero of the day to explain strange glass formations in the lunar rock samples, saying, “They’re zap craters, like in Buck Rogers...
General Myers also suggests there is growing consensus in Washington that Afghanistan's needs require a greater commitment from the U.S. In the strip of Afghanistan stretching from Kabul eastward to the Pakistan border, where al-Qaeda and the Taliban are still potent, the principal mission of the U.S. must for now remain military, Myers says. But in the remaining three-quarters of the country, it might be time to "flip our priorities," he says, and make reconstruction paramount. "That's what we're debating right now inside government." Myers says rebuilding Afghanistan would not be "a U.S.-only effort...
...when you get there," advised the smiling service station attendant. "It's a sacred place," croaked a gimlet-eyed crone squatting outside a shop where I stopped for water. "Be careful." Thus it was with some trepidation that I turned off the highway and followed the signs along a strip of crumbling bitumen. I passed through the gates of a temple and found the tallest palm trees I've ever seen, jutting skyward from a lush hump of jungle-covered earth in the middle of a weed-strewn lake. It looked like one of southern Thailand's tropical isles...
...there was good news for the reform movement too: the release of the Iran's top political dissident, former Interior Minister Abdullah Nouri, by Supreme Leader Ayatallah Ali Khamenei. Nouri's an ally of President Mohammed Khatami. Meanwhile, a constitutional crisis loomed after parliament passed a bill to strip the hard-line clerics of some of their powers. The bill must be approved by the Council of Guardians, the body whose powers parliament wants to reduce. BRITAIN Trouble at the Top Embattled opposition leader Iain Duncan Smith called on his beleaguered Conservative Party to "unite or die" in the face...
Attempts to silence free speech have continued, and especially on matters concerning Israel and Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza Strip). In a particularly McCarthyist turn, a recently founded website called Campus Watch encourages students to report professors who criticize Israel. The emergent divestment movement which hopes to pressure Israel to end its military occupation has met with similarly unfair tactics. As students on campuses across the country have called for universities to withdraw U.S. subsidies and corporate investments supporting the highly repressive policies of the Israeli government in the Palestinian territories, these students have been called anti-Semites. This...