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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 50

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“[W]hen former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif returned to Pakistan, where did he go? To the Sufi shrine in Lahore.” — Pakistani anthropologist Akbar Ahmed on Sufism as an antidote to Islamic fundamentalism (see “Islam,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Oil industry’s Amazon frontier
A man, a dam and a salmon plan
Corruption roils Alaska oil politics
*Australia*
Things looking up for the poor Down Under
*Islam*
The stirrings of Islamo-liberalism

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* Oil Industry’s Amazon Frontier
Economic development and ecological conservation are once again at odds in the Amazon, where a remote region thick with rare species — and indigenous peoples in “voluntary isolation” — has been opened to extensive oil and gas development.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 49

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“I was expecting the site to tell me that I couldn’t do that. I’m just curious about these things so I tried it, and boom, there was somebody else’s name and somebody else’s data.” — Canadian Jamie Laning changed one letter on a passport renewal Web site, and got surprising results (see “Privacy,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Whither Cuba’s green thumb?

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 48

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“The Chinese government is closely monitoring and is intensifying repair work, and I think we can avoid losses as far as possible.” — Wang Xiaofeng on landslides and pollution around China’s largest hydroelectric project (see “Three Gorges Dam,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Japan to expand atomic bomb victim standards
Kosovo threatens unilateral independence
Tear gas for ethnic protest in Malaysia
*Three Gorges Dam*
Cracks at the seams? China bolsters Three Gorges
*Kenya*
Sex on the beach or birds in hand?

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 47

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EDITOR’S NOTE: This week’s News You Might Have Missed is the final edition researched and written by Julia Scott. Julia started with NYMHM in early 2003, and went on to set a standard for “important but overlooked news” that remains unmatched for its breadth, depth and journalistic rigor. Her tireless efforts defined NYMHM through four years of growth and change. Her work has been insightful, determined, humane and always revelatory. We wish her the best as she continues her successful career as a full-time, daily newspaper reporter here in the Bay Area.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 46

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“Two or three problems out of 4,000 result in the whole process being shut down. It’s very hard for child welfare advocates to respond. They don’t want to defend one adoption taking place that shouldn’t be. But at the same time, 3,999 children are being deprived of a family.”

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 45

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“Good luck to the Knesset, we’ll leave the Knesset to you, and all the racists can choke.” — Israeli-Arab legislator Muhammad Barakei trades heated words in Israel’s legislature (see “Middle East,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
The Taliban’s volatile mix … of foreign fighters
The twin horns of a co-epidemic: AIDS and TB
Whistle-blowers muted by bureaucracy
*War & Terrorism*
The persistence of rendition
*Middle East*
Israeli Arabs say home is not so sweet
*Religion & Society*
Thailand’s Muslim conflict

TOP STORIES
* The Taliban’s Volatile Mix …

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 44

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“There are a lot of powerful countries meddling in a weak state and a lot of strategic interests involved.” — An anonymous regional analyst on Niger’s burgeoning uranium rebellion (see “Africa’s Resource Wars II,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Iran’s other little problem — inflation
Resistance deepens to Afghan poppy spraying
A taste of old Russia
*Uganda*
New hopes and hurdles for Uganda peace
*Africa’s Resource Wars I*
Blood diamonds sullied, but still glitter
*Africa’s Resource Wars II*
Uranium ignites Niger strife
*Dissent*
Old wounds deepen for government critics

TOP STORIES
* Iran’s Other Little Problem — Inflation
Nary a word about Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s nuclear ambitions or headline-grabbing trip to the United States appeared in a recent Agence France-Presse article. Instead, the piece focused entirely on rising complaints about his economic stewardship, which experts say will push inflation to more than 20 percent this year.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 43

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“They hope by using these scare tactics they can persuade policymakers to alter labeling, and they can use the label to drive people away.” — James Greenwood of the Biotechnology Industry Association, on a new push to label GMO foods (see “Food Safety,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
The child brides of Kandahar
Cancer is the latest Chechen scourge
Fakin’ it: Officials forge a future in Iraq
*In Context: Wildfires*
Why California must burn
*Labor*
Offshoring meets “onshoring” in the quest for cheap labor
*Food Safety*
Activists seek labels for biotech foods

TOP STORIES
* The Child Brides of Kandahar
Human rights activists in Afghanistan say arranged marriages involving young girls under 16 still account for half of all marriages in some parts of the country, such as in southern Kandahar province. The tradition is perpetuated by poverty and illiteracy, say activists — problems that are just as systemic.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 42

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“This permit is indecipherable. They tell me I’m going to get some answers, but I’m still waiting.” — Indiana physician John Crayton, on a plan to limit regulation of steel mill pollution in Lake Michigan (see “Environment,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Families a casualty of Kasmir split
New testimony in Indonesia activist death
AIDS bias targets 11-year-old boy
*Mining*
Girls, pollution, poverty: The other mining disasters
*Environment*
U.S. water pollution laws routinely flouted: report
*Iran*
Dissent Crackdown Deepens

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* Families a Casualty of Kashmir Split
As many as 50,000 Indian-Pakistani families have been divided by the disputed Kashmir province since 1989.

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News You Might Have Missed * Vol. 6, No. 41

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Important but overlooked news from around the world. QUOTED:
“This is not an immigration law … it’s a nod to National Front electors ahead of the municipal elections.” — A French editorial cartoon targets a DNA-testing proposal for prospective immigrants (see “Top Stories,” below). CONTENTS:
*Top Stories*
Inter-agency spying a U.S. “intelligence nightmare”
Genocide resolution a threat to Turkey’s Jews?