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1 1 Today
  • 32 1 TODAY on Sunday INCORPORATING INTERNATIONAL WEEKLY www.todayonline.com September 4, 2011 MICA(P) 199/02/2011 A Publication of MediaCorp Articles selected for Sunday, September 4, 2011 Copyright 2011 The New York Times MICA (P) 041/07/2011
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    • 747 1 MILLIONAIRES, FEEL AT HOME AT THE CLUB ATCAPELLA the finer life 6 CITI’S GLOBAL CEO FOR PRIVATE BANKING the st regis perspectives 8 WHY DO THESE PEOPLE RUN 100KM AND MORE? sunday special 2 GEORGINA CHANG TAKES ON GENDER EXPECTATIONS speakeasy 12 TEACHING YOUR CHILD TEACHES YOU RIGHT BACK parent
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  • 1386 2  -  Finishing a standard marathon is hard enough who would be crazy to put themselves through a gruelling 100km (or longer) race? Yet, ultra-marathons are catching on here, and we get inside the heads of three enthusiasts mad about running sundayspecial cheow xin yi todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg One began
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  • 414 4  -  CHEOW XIN YI IF ULTRA-MARATHONS are the next leg in the evolution of Singapore’s running boom, special interest running groups may ensure its continued longevity. Running typically viewed as a boring and lonely activity has never gotten more social and enjoyable, with such informal
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    • 102 5 Experience the extraordinary The new Pure Fitness Asia Square at Marina View This 32,000 sq-ft concept club of world-class design and facilities opens in December 2011. i Exclusive pre-opening rates start 5 September! Come visit our sales booth at Level 2, Asia Square Tower 1,8 Marina View Pure Fitness Roadshow:
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  • 847 6  -  The Club at Capella offers just the kind of home away from home a busy millionaire needs thefinerlife crispina robert todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Re-establishing roots elsewhere can be more daunting than it is exciting. There are the usual perils of having to adjust to a completely new
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    • 765 7 nturttay Wednesday Monday Sunday Tuesday FRIDAY Thursday Saturday Thursday Monday Tuesday Saturday SUNDAY Friday We unday Tuesday Thursday MONDAY Saturday Tuesday Friday Wednesday Tuesday Monday Saturday Thursday Sunday Friday Tuesday Sal 7ednesday Monday Sunday Tuesday FRIDAY Thursday Saturday Thursday Monday Tuesday Saturday SUNDAY Friday Wednesday S icsdoy Thursday MONDAY Saturday
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  • 1233 8 Asia is where the world’s super-rich are sinking their money, and Jane Fraser, Citibank’s global CEO for private banking, tells Nicholas Fang why Singapore is a perfect base the perspectives Jane Fraser’s eyes light up when she sees the tiers of trays bearing afternoon tea
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  • 1510 10  - I have cancer at 26 It has been three months of cruel twists, tears and mortal fear. Now I’m trying to learn to accept what comes next with grace faceinthecrowd surekha ahgir yadav todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg It has been almost three months since I was diagnosed. I still wake up in the
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  • 824 12  - Women should always carry tissue But so should men, because you can’t use your shirtsleeves to wipe up birdpoop speakeasy georgina chang todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Georgina Chang is the Senior Creative Director for Lush and 987FM, and the co-host for Lush Mornings on Thursdays 7-10am. Itake great pleasure in being a woman,
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  • 668 12  - Surprise your kids might teach you something back parenttoparent christopher toh todayonsunday@mediacorp.com.sg Christopher Toh, Today’s deputy features editor, is a beleaguered father of a three- and a five-year-old. Parents will find themselves faced with issues on raising kids. There’s the obvious financial planning that’s needed, which starts from even before
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  • HOT NEWS
    • 412 13  -  ADDITIONAL REPORTING BY JOANNE CHAN SINGAPORE In the intense interactions of foreign races, religions and cultures in a globalised economy like Singapore’s, misunderstandings especially when they crop up in the media can spark unnecessary tensions. Elaborating, Acting Minister for Community Development, Youth and Sports Chan
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    • 203 13 Singapore is not “immune” to the growing rift between those who are becoming increasingly religious and those who are the opposite. And more will need to be done to “enlarge and defend the common space” for Singaporeans, said Acting Minister for
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    • Article, Illustration
      68 13 Singapore’s 3rd National Kite Flying Festival, sponsored by NTUC Income, saw many participants at the Marina Bay promontory yesterday. Some of the highlights included a traditional kite-making showcase featuring masters from Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines and Vietnam. There were exciting kite master demonstrations, kite making workshops, as well as
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    • 405 13 REUTERS BEIJING In his second warning in two months, World Bank president Robert Zoellick cautioned that the world economy is stepping into a “new danger zone”, as growth slows and investor confidence weakens. Speaking in Beijing, Mr Zoellick urged Europe and the United States
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    • 76 14 A surfer rides waves at Nishihara beach in Fujisawa, near Tokyo, yesterday. Slow-moving Typhoon Talas dumped heavy rain across a wide swath of Japan yesterday, reportedly killing one person and leaving five others missing. Because of the storm’s slow speed, there could be heavy rain and strong
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    • 177 14 AP SEOUL The United States sent a plane loaded with a small but symbolic shipment of emergency aid that was due to arrive in flood-stricken North Korea yesterday, in the latest sign of a thaw in relations between the countries. The plane
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    • 101 14 REUTERS Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov yesterday condemned sanctions imposed on Syria by the European Union, saying they “will lead to nothing good”. “This ruins the partnership approach to any crisis,” Mr Lavrov told reporters on the sidelines of a summit of former Soviet
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    • 112 14 AP Bands of rain from Tropical Storm Lee pelted the United States Gulf Coast yesterday as the storm’s centre trudged slowly towards land, causing businesses to suffer on what would normally be a bustling holiday weekend. Lee, which could bring as
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    • 118 14 THE NEW YORK TIMES News Corporation, which became mired in the phone-hacking scandal that engulfed the News of the World in July, announced on Friday that two of its longest-serving directors Mr Ken Cowley and Mr Thomas Perkins were stepping down. Mr Jim Breyer, a
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    • 361 14 AGENCIES WASHINGTON United States President Barack Obama yesterday renewed his call for Congress to extend legislation to fund highways and mass-transit projects he said would save “hundreds of thousands” of jobs. In his weekly radio and Internet address, he said that, while “there’s
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    • 93 14 AP An initial public opinion poll has given new Japanese Prime MinisterYoshihiko Noda and his Cabinet a support rating of 63 per cent. Mr Noda and his Cabinet were officially appointed on Friday, promising to guide the nation through the
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    • 151 14 THE MALAYSIAN INSIDER A Malaysian cameraman was killed on Friday in the Somali capital of Mogadishu while on a humanitarian mission, when African Union peacekeepers allegedly shot at a truck in which six mission members, including Bernama TV cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, were travelling. Malaysian
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    • 82 14 REUTERS Pakistani Taliban yesterday claimed responsibility for holding up to 25 boys hostage as punishment fortribesmen who supported the military in the country’s troubled north-west. Pakistani officials said on Friday that militants in Afghanistan kidnapped the boys after they mistakenly
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    • 107 15 Fire gutted parts of a factory in Benoi Crescent early yesterday morning, sending seven workers fleeing. The Singapore Civil Defence Force (SCDF) said it was alerted to the fire at about 4am. When firefighters arrived at the scene, the storage area was ablaze and filled with
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    • 359 15 AP ANKARA —Turkey is preparing to challenge Israel’s blockade on Gaza at the International Court of Justice, its Foreign Minister said yesterday, raising tensions between the once close allies. Mr Ahmet Davutoglu’s comments came a day after Turkey expelled Israel’s ambassador and severed
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    • 240 15 CHANNEL NEWSASIA SINGAPORE Dr Tan Cheng Bock, who contested and lost by a razorthin margin to President Tony Tan Keng Yam in the recent Presidential Election, would like to take some time to rest before thinking of what he wants to do next.
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    • 139 15 AP The Vatican yesterday vigorously rejected claims it sabotaged efforts by Irish bishops to report priests who sexually abused children to police, and accused the Irish Prime Minister of making an “unfounded” attack against the Holy See. The Vatican issued a 24-page response
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    • 183 15 AP Documents found in Tripoli revealed new details on how the CIA, along with other foreign intelligence agencies, worked closely with Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s intelligence services in the rendition of terror suspects to Libya for interrogation cooperation that could spark tensions between Washington and
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    • 88 15 The Sentosa Buskers Festival is back for a second year, this time with a bigger ensemble and a focus on charity. The festival is expected to attract 110,000 spectators this year. Thirteen acts will put on more than 180 performances from now until
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  • SPORTS
    • 647 16 World’s greatest sprinter makes up for his 100m flop in stunning style AP DAEGU Six days and a slow start later, Usain Bolt (picture) finally won gold here at the 2011 World Championships, running the fourth-fastest 200m in history to back up his showmanship with a
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    • 328 16 DAEGU Athletics chief Lamine Diack maintained the hardest of lines yesterday, insisting there would be no changing or bending of the rules to prevent big names being disqualified. “No chance,” the IAAF president said on the sidelines of the world
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    • 607 17 Sprinkled with youngsters and led by Rooney, the Three Lions seem transformed AGENCIES EURO 2012 QUALIFIER, GROUP G Bulgaria 0 England 3 SOFIA When Fabio Capello agonised over whether to bow to the storm of advice that he should walk away after England’s catastrophic World
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    • 137 17 REUTERS Bulgaria coach Lothar Matthaeus issued an apology after a section of home fans aimed racist abuse at England winger Ashley Young during their Euro 2012 qualifier. After the Group G tie, which England won 3-0, a spokesman said the English Football Association had reported the
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    • 373 17 REUTERS FOOTBALL Euro 2012 qualifiers LONDON Germany became the first team to join co-hosts Poland and Ukraine at the Euro 2012 finals when they thrashed neighbours Austria 6-2 to seal top spot in Group A on Friday (yesterday morning,
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    • 562 18 Women’s seeds continue to tumble, as Stosur and Petrova set a record AP TENNIS US Open NEW YORK For the first two sets, Andy Murray (picture) felt as if he couldn’t move. Only when the realisation came that his next move could be to the
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    • 356 18 REUTERS RUGBY 2011 World Cup WELLINGTON The All Blacks received some unlikely support yesterday with both Wales captain Sam Warburton and South African loose forward Francois Louw confirming all sides pushed the boundaries of the law at every opportunity. New Zealand
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    • 671 19  -  Skipper Shahril vows team will give it their all against Iraq to get back on track TAN YO-HINN yohinn@mediacorp.com.sg ASIAN WORLD CUP QUALIFIER, GROUP A, THIRD ROUND Singapore vs Iraq SINGAPORE It was 24 hours after their opening Group A clash with China
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    • 352 19  -  TAN YO-HINN SINGAPORE Some of the world’s best mixed martial arts (MMA) fighters were on show here last night. But commanding some of the loudest cheers from a big crowd of around 6,000 at the ONE Fighting Championship at the Singapore Indoor Stadium
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  • Page 21 Miscellaneous
    • 1163 21 SUNDAY TV BILLY ELLIOT okto, 10pm Billy Elliot (Jamie Bell) dazzles in energetic dance sequences set against the chaos of the 1984 coal miner’s strike. Julie Walters earned an Academy Award nomination for her portrayal of a truly original ballet instructor. A fantastic underdog story, Billy Elliot will send your
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  • Page 22 Miscellaneous
    • 1847 22 TV LISTINGS MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY SATURDAY CHANNEL CHANNEL CHANNEL 6.00AM Planet’s Funniest Animals VIII 6.30 AM Live! 9.00 The Martha Stewart Show VI 10.00 The Doctors 11.00 Films Stars Asia 11.30 Buffetlicious NOON Under One Roof V 12.30PM Chase 1.00 Triple Nine III 2.00 The Two Of Us
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  • Page 23 Miscellaneous
    • 1943 23 3.00PM Anjaraipetti II 3.30 Sathy Leelavathi 4.00 Take It Easy Vazhkai III 4.30 Mythilli 5.00 Nijangal 5.30 Primary Six 6.00 Vasantham Star 2007 7.00 Gokulathil Seethai 7.30 Ethiroli 8.00 Vaira Nenjam 8.30 Tamil Seithi 9.00 Thulluvatho Elamei 9.30 Rusiyai Thedi III 10.00 ICE 10.30 Savithiri 11.00 Mohe Rang De 11.30
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  • ARTS & STYLES
    • 722 16  -  By PATRICIA COHEN EljciXhu Jlork Elmcs At 53, Ehsan Yarshater embarked on a definitive encyclopedia of Iranian history and culture. At 75, he started looking for a successor. He didn’t find one so he kept going himself. Now he’s 91. He’s up
      EljciXhu Jlork Elmcs; MARCUS YAM FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  722 words
    • 751 16  -  essay ANTHONY TOMMASINI EljciXhu Jlork Elmcs In the last decade the growth of technical proficiency in pianists has seemed exponential. The latest young Chinese pianist to earn raves is Yuja Wang. Yes, Ms. Wang, 24, can play anything. Deutsche Grammophon released her first recording
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    • 815 15  -  By LARRY ROHTER eljcJCcUT Jjork ®tmc$ If salsa is today a global style of dance music, that is due in no small part to “Our Latin Thing.” The film, a 40th anniversary version of which has just been released, documents
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    • 507 15  -  By CRAIG TOM ASHOFF SEljeJfctu Jjork ®tmc$ It’s going on two decades since MTV came out with “The Real World,” considered the first American television series to take ordinary, unknown people and focus cameras on them 24/7 until they
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  • MONEY & BUSINESS
    • 725 14  -  By MATT SIEGEL eljcJCcUt Jlork Ehncs SYDNEY, Australia Marco Nero once earned more than $1 million working as a film effects designer for some of the world’s leading digital animation houses. Then he caught gold fever. “I happened to talk to the gentleman that
      eljcJCcUt Jlork Ehncs; MARCO NERO; BELOW, ANDREW QUILTY FOR THE INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE  -  725 words
    • 788 14  -  DealB%k By STEVEN M. DAVIDOFF Edited by Andrew Ross Sorkin Eljc JfcUr Jlork Ehncs Apple has a cash problem. It’s not just that it has too much cash, $76 billion as of June 30. It’s rather that $41 billion of it is held abroad. Apple
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    • 909 13  -  By SUSANNE CRAIG SljeJfau JJork elm css Long after star analysts of the dot-com era self-destructed, a new generation of Wall Street researchers is grabbing attention and a lot of money. The investment houses are sparring over specialists in Web
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    • 669 13  -  By MOTOKO RICH Stye Jfrut JJork elm css RIVER GROVE, Illinois Forget tie-dyed shirts and water games. At summer camp this year, Nautika Kotero, 13, learned to use a drill press, solder electrical wires and build a lamp. Though the teenager
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  • SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY
    • 814 12  -  By NATALIE ANGIER El)c iN'ctu Jjork Simcs WASHINGTON Stranded in snowy Germany several years back, Nira Pereg, a video artist from Tel Aviv, visited the Karlsruhe zoo, and became fascinated by the flamingos. Phoenicopterus minor, with its orange plumage and thick, bent bill,
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    • 591 12  -  By JOHN MARKOFF El)c JfrUt Jjork Simcs For decades, the power of computers has grown at a staggering rate as designers have managed to squeeze ever more and ever tinier transistors onto a silicon chip. The number has doubled every two years,
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    • 694 11  -  By CORNELIA DEAN eljc ?Cc\u JJork Enncs Fora day at the beach you can find books that will enhance your experience by informing you about the birds, the fish, the plants and even the bugs you may encounter. But what about the beach itself? What is
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    • 707 11  -  By CLAUDIA DREIFUS el)c ?Cc\u JJork Enncs Among his academic peers, Daniel Lieberman, 47, is known as a “hoof and mouth” man. That’s because Dr. Lieberman, an evolutionary biology professor at Harvard University, spends his time studying how the human head and foot
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  • HEALTH & FITNESS
    • 734 10  -  By CHRISTINE HAUGHNEY eljcJCcUt Jlork Elmcs Ravi Greene can tell you how to get anywhere in New York City by transit like the beach, on the 6 train. “The 6 goes elevated from Whitlock Avenue to Pelham Bay Park,” he explains. “And at Pelham
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    • 609 10  -  essay JANE E. BRODY Sljc JfctiT Jlork Elmcs An exercise routine that improves posture and strengthens back muscles can go a long way toward preventing a vertebral fracture. And if you are already plagued by back pain due to vertebral fractures, these
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  • WORLD TRENDS
    • 550 8  -  miácora journal By SIMON ROMERO el)c iXcUt JJork Sinter MIÁCORA, Colombia All that remained here, on a drizzleshrouded ridge in the Chocó jungle, was a rusting cross and some crumpled fuselage. Gordon Radley was 15 when a Colombian DC-3 crashed in 1962 in
      el)c iXcUt JJork Sinter; PHOTOGRAPHS BY LALO DE ALMEIDA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES; THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  550 words
    • 688 8  -  By SARAH SARAH LYALL el)c iXcUt JJork Sinter IPSWICH, England The Ipswich Museum contains many alluring and potentially theft-worthy items, including a 2,000-year-old gold-leaf Egyptian death mask and a rare Hawaiian cape featuring feathers from the extinct o’o bird. But when two thieves forced
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    • 1299 1  -  By HENRY FOUNTAIN The New York Times begin using the Panama route. But the impact will probably be greatest on the trading partners of the United States, the destination or origin of about two-thirds of the goods that pass through the canal. Even more
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    • 582 1  -  LENS KEVIN DELANEY ®l)c jNetir Mark (times less depression and anxiety and cope better with struggles at work. Kristin Neff, an associate professor of human development at the University of Texas at Austin, told The Times that “most people have gotten it wrong because
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    • 749 6  -  By ANTHONY SHADID, KAREEM FAHIM eljcJsVut Jlork Stmcs TRIPOLI, Libya His name of choice was the Brother Leader, though his nearly 42 years of rule were rarely brotherly, and his leadership left a country with plentiful oil in shambles. Now, as the
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    • 559 6  -  By ELLEN BARRY Sljc $c\v Jlork Stmes MOSCOW The people who run autocratic Russia are obsessed with approval ratings. Political competition has been all but extinguished since Vladimir V. Putin came to power, so elections serve as little more than a ritual display
      Sljc $c\v Jlork Stmes; POOL PHOTO BY MIKHAIL KLIMENTYEV/ RIA NOVOSTI/KREMLIN  -  559 words
    • 807 4  -  By HIROKO TABUCHI el)e JsVtu Jlork Elmcs IWAISHIMA, Japan When the boats came to start work on a planned nuclear power plant just off this tiny island, an aging fisherwoman named TamikoTakebayashi carried out a dramatic protest: she lashed herself to the dock.
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    • 597 4  -  By ALISSA J. RUBIN Stye Jfrtu Jlork Elmcs KABUL, Afghanistan Once a river flowed under the low Pul-i-Sokhta bridge here, but now the stream is clotted with garbage and crowds of heroin and opium addicts huddle in the
      Stye Jfrtu Jlork Elmcs; MAURICIO LIMA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  597 words
    • 689 3  -  By CARLOTTA GALL eljcJCcUt Jtjork Elmcs GENEVA A slim figure in a dark suit, Brahumdagh Bugti, 30, could pass for a banker in the streets of this sedate Swiss city. But in truth he is a resistance leader in exile, a player in an
      eljcJCcUt Jtjork Elmcs; NICOLAS R1GHETTI FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  689 words
    • 716 3  -  By JULIE COHN Sljc JfcUt Jlork Elmcs HOP TIEN, Vietnam Over a decade ago, human traffickers descended on this seemingly forgotten slice of soaring limestone crags and lush valleys to snatch up women and children and sell them over the border in China, less than
      Sljc JfcUt Jlork Elmcs; PHOTOGRAPHS BY JUSTIN MOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES  -  716 words
    • 745 2  -  opinion ANN LOUISE BARDACH The author wrote “Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana and Washington.” Sljc iNctu Jlork ehncs SANTA BARBARA, California Fidel Castro has ruled his island nation for more than five decades, and his devoted 57-year-old disciple, President Hugo Chávez of Venezu-
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    • 689 2  -  intelligenCe/roger ROGER COHEN Sljc iNctu Jlork ehncs London In the past several months 100 million people across North Africa have been freed and plenty of folk see cause for concern. I wonder what would make the worriers happy.There has not been such a wave of liberation
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