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...Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries’s second largest oil producer (it holds ten percent of the world’s proven oil reserves) and the world’s second largest natural gas reserve. Yet Iran has extremely limited deposits of uranium—producing energy via nuclear means makes far less financial sense than producing it by conventional means...
...challenges. "The Red Cross has turned over a new leaf,"says Daniel Borochoff, president of the American Institute of Philanthropy. Fund raising has obviously not been a problem. The organization teamed with Google, MSN and Yahoo! to channel money through their websites--and nearly half its Katrina funds arrived via the Internet. Though not as forthcoming with details of its spending as critics would like, the Red Cross is at least edging toward transparency. It says it has used $358.7 million of its cash to house more than 380,000 Katrina survivors in shelters and hotels, serve nearly 9.8 million...
...they did in Lebanon"--an unsubtle reference to the Administration's belief that Damascus had a hand in the February assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafiq Hariri. The Administration's Syria strategy, says a U.S. official, is to get "the international community to speak with one voice," perhaps via U.N. Security Council sanctions if a U.N. investigation implicates Assad's regime in Hariri's murder. When the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, Zalmay Khalilzad, warned Syria last week that "our patience is running out," Assad's Information Minister called the remark a "clear escalation in a chain of successive pressures...
...West -- anyway in the old westerns--morality and mechanics went gun-in-hand. Any showdown ended with the good guy proving his superiority over the bad guy via a double blast of dexterity and firepower. Few questioned why the better man should automatically be a faster, more accurate shot or why disputes had to be resolved by gunplay. That was just the way that, in national and movie mythology, the West...
...main ways in which the current war differs from its predecessors is the direct access that soldiers have to those at home via online blogs. Those diaries give ground-level views of the highs and lows of soldiering in Iraq. Here are five of the more thoughtful, writerly and engaging posters-at-arms...