City of secrets

Article Abstract:

Afghanistan is a country torn in a civil war that has claimed thousands of lives. The Pakistani-backed Taliban rule two-thirds of the county with strict Islamic laws that have left women, children, the poor, and the old with little hope for a better future. Women are forced to wear the all-encompassing veils and men are required to have fist-length beards. The Taliban are fighting on two fronts, one in the north against Abdul Rashid and Tajik commander Ahamed Shah Masood. In Afghanistan, television and music are outlawed, people die of starvation, and there is no end to the war.

Social policy, Political aspects, Civil war, Taliban

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Afghanistan: A Matter of Survival

Article Abstract:

Illegal logging is booming in Afghanistan, largely because of poverty and the fact that the central government has little authority beyond Kabul. Rural farmers--many of whom are actively involved in the cutting down of the country's pine and cedar forests--are hurt most by the activity, because the topsoil from cleared areas washes down on their farms and ruins them.

Afghanistan, Environmental aspects, Logging

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See how they wander

Article Abstract:

An account how information technology workers from the Ukranie and India are recruited to work in western firms is presented. It has been suggested Western Europe will need 1.7 million more technology workers by 2003.

Computer Services, Computer Systems Design and Related Services, Computer and Data Processing Services, Employee Recruitment, Computer software industry, Computer industry, Software industry, Information technology services, Recruiting, Computer programmers, Immigrants, Computer engineers

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