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Juxtapost 34

"...Mr. Nasir said that since losing his engineering job about five years ago, he had been trading semiprecious stones, which has taken him around Europe and to the tribal areas of Pakistan, where he said he looked for bargains. The German authorities see his trips there differently. An Aug. 1, German court order authorizing a police search, citing information from the Pakistani Inter-Services Intelligence agency, or ISI, said there was sufficient evidence that he supported Al Qaeda 'by the financial payments, by the recruitment of fighters, by the handing over of field glasses and night-vision glasses, as well as by the idea of fighting for Al Qaeda by himself.'..."

Juxtapost 33

"...His resignation is a rapid fall from power for a prime minister who came into office a year ago with ambitious plans to repair frayed relations with Asian neighbors, revise the 1947 pacifist Constitution, and bolster Japan’s role in international diplomatic and military affairs..."

Juxtapost 32

"...Beginning early last year, at least five of the suspects traveled to the tribal regions of Waziristan, where they learned to prepare chemical explosives and military-grade detonators that they intended to use to build three car bombs, according to German officials and a confidential German intelligence document that details the allegations..."

Juxtapost 31

"...The number of American children and adolescents treated for bipolar disorder increased 40-fold from 1994 to 2003, researchers report today in the most comprehensive study of the controversial diagnosis..."

Juxtapost 30

"...The courtyard in front of the Zambia China Mulungushi Textiles factory is so quiet, even at midday, that the fluttering of the ragged Chinese and Zambian flags is the only sound hanging in the air. The factory used to roar. From the day it opened more than 20 years ago, the vast compound had shuddered to the whir of rollers and the clatter of mechanical weaving machines spooling out millions of yards of brightly colored African cloth. Today, only the cotton gin still runs, with the company's Chinese managers buying raw cotton for export to China's humming textile industry. Nobody can say when or even if the factory here will reopen. 'We are back where we started,' said Wilfred Collins Wonani, who leads the Chamber of Commerce here, sighing at the loss of one of the city's biggest employers. 'Sending raw materials out, bringing cheap manufactured goods in. This isn't progress. It is colonialism.'..."

Juxtapost 29

CARE, one of the world's biggest charities, is walking away from some $45 million a year in federal financing, saying American food aid is not only plagued with inefficiencies, but also may hurt some of the very poor people it aims to help. CARE's decision is focused on the practice of selling tons of often heavily subsidized American farm products in African countries that in some cases, it says, compete with the crops of struggling local farmers.

Juxtapost 28

In places like Nantucket, the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and Teton County, Idaho, the migrants are creating hybrid communities, implanting urban incomes, tastes, careers, ambitions, restaurants, cultural activities and networking opportunities into small towns that until recently could support none of these, and for which there has been little planning and still no consensus...Into quiet resort spots the migrants have come, laptops on their knees: fund managers from New York, software developers from California, consultants, proofreaders, engineers, inventors. “The same processes that led to the suburbanization of the United States after World War II,” Mr. Schechter said, “are now producing a virtual suburbanization in places like Jackson or Steamboat Springs.”

Juxtapost 27

Congress needed to act quickly, intelligence officials said, to repair a dangerous situation. Some lawmakers were alarmed. Others, jaded by past intelligence warnings, were skeptical. The report helped set off a furious legislative rush last week that, improbably, broadened the administration's authority to wiretap terrorism suspects without court oversight.

Juxtapost 26

President Bush signed into law on Sunday legislation that broadly expanded the government’s authority to eavesdrop on the international telephone calls and e-mail messages of American citizens without warrants. Congressional aides and others familiar with the details of the law said that its impact went far beyond the small fixes that administration officials had said were needed to gather information about foreign terrorists. They said seemingly subtle changes in legislative language would sharply alter the legal limits on the government’s ability to monitor millions of phone calls and e-mail messages going in and out of the United States.

Juxtapost 25

The three pigs, all now living in experimental farmyards, are among the genetically engineered animals whose meat might one day turn up on American dinner plates. Bioengineers have also developed salmon that grow to market weight in about half the typical time, disease-resistant cows and catfish needing fewer antibiotics, and goats whose milk might help ward off infections in children who drink it.