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		<title>How Berlusconi May Upend the Italian Elections</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/02/23/how-berlusconi-may-upend-the-italian-elections/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Feb 2013 20:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stephan Faris / Rome</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Mario Monti]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pier Luigi Bersani]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was supposed to be an easy victory for the Italian center-left candidate, Pier Luigi Bersani. After all, his opponents include Silvio Berlusconi, the former Prime Minister facing trial for underage prostitution; Mario Monti, the technocratic Premier many Italians blame for a year of harsh austerity; and — vacuuming up the protest vote — Beppe Grillo, a bombastic comedian who refuses to campaign on television. Instead, as Italians head to the polls on Feb. 24 and 25, the result is anything but certain. Bersani has spent much of the past two months watching Berlusconi close the gap between them. Since the beginning of the election season, the former Prime Minister has been ever present on Italian television, both on the channels he owns and those of his competitors. In January, he appeared on a program hosted by two of his most ferocious critics, making a show of walking into the lion&#8217;s den, and, in front of a record audience, wiping the floor with them (almost literally; at one point, he used a handkerchief to dust off a chair where one of his opponents had been sitting). (MORE: Top 10 Worst Silvio Berlusconi Gaffes) In a campaign that sometimes seemed designed to panic markets, Berlusconi stole headlines by threatening to leave the euro zone if Germany continues to insist on austerity, announcing amnesties for tax evasion and illegal building and pledging to overturn, and even refund, an unpopular housing tax put in place by Monti — moves carefully calibrated to appeal to an electoral base that is largely uneducated and mistrustful of a state that overspends and mismanages their money. “A lot of [Italians] still look at Berlusconi as their savior, or at least the lesser evil,” Robert D&#8217;Alimonte, a professor of political science at Rome&#8217;s LUISS University. “They might hate him. They might think he&#8217;s a crook. They know about bunga bunga [the alleged sex parties at Berlusconi’s mansions]. But they see him as the only one they can trust who won&#8217;t raise their taxes.” As of Feb. 8, the last day on<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=70715&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Committee to Save the Planet: Who Watches the Asteroids?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Feb 2013 09:32:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nina Burleigh</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[asteroid]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week, a hunk of space rock half the size of a football field will pass historically close to us, between Earth and our communication satellites. Scientists are certain the asteroid, dubbed 2012 DA14, will not hit Earth. If it did, the resulting explosion would equal around 180 Hiroshima atom bombs. Asteroids have played an immense role in the history of the earth. They may have seeded the earth with organic elements; they wiped out the dinosaurs (which eventually made evolutionary room for humankind); they may even have brought water to the planet. While nothing is guaranteed, a collision with something like 2012 DA14 isn’t uncommon. Space is like a three-dimensional pool table, with hunks of rock, ice and metal zipping around us all the time. Half a million objects are estimated to inhabit near earth’s orbit alone. Our generation of humanity is the first to be able to identify an incoming threat in advance.That new capability poses unprecedented and fascinating moral, philosophical, political and practical questions. Scientists can tell us, with increasing degrees of certainty, whether an object will hit the planet tomorrow, or, in 200 years. They can even predict whether it will land in the ocean or hit New York. (MORE: Duck! Close Shave with an Asteroid Coming) But they can’t do much about it – yet. If they were to identify an incoming civilization-ender 200 years out, what do we owe future generations in terms of R and D to save the planet? And what do the nations owe each other if, say, an incoming object is aimed at a a particular nation? Enter the planetary defenders, a group of astronomers, physicists and aerospace engineers who have since the early 1990s been locating flying space rocks, painstakingly plotting their orbits, and thinking of ingenious schemes to drag them off course or blow them up should they be on a trajectory toward us. Finally, they have been imagining how the fractious family of man might come together with a contingency plan to literally save the planet, like Bruce<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=68455&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The White Stuff: Mining Giant Rio Tinto Unearths Unrest in Madagascar</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jessica Hatcher / Fort Dauphin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For five days in January, a few hundred protesters armed with slingshots in Fort Dauphin, Madagascar, blocked the road to one of the country’s largest economic assets, a $940 million mining operation run by the British-Australian company Rio Tinto. Their grievances were local: high unemployment, alleged political corruption and unsatisfactory reimbursement for relocating homes to make room for the mine. But the protest’s effects were global and relate to anyone who wants to brush their teeth, put on sunscreen or whitewash their house. Fort Dauphin could have supplied a tenth of the world&#8217;s ilmenite, a mineral used to make titanium dioxide, the white pigment commonly found in toothpaste, cosmetics and paint. The product is a staple of household goods in the West and global demand is growing, especially in India and China. But three weeks after the Fort Dauphin standoff, which ended when the Malagasy military dispersed the crowd with tear gas, Rio Tinto announced a major scale-back in Madagascar. The company is shelving plans for a second — and larger — mine in nearby St. Luce, which leaves only one of three planned sites in operation. The cuts mark a potential setback for Madagascar, where 70% of the population lives on less than $1 per day. The African nation has hydrocarbon deposits, gold and half of the world&#8217;s sapphires, and the arrival of mining companies like Rio Tinto brought the prospect of improved economic conditions. But the protesters in Fort Dauphin say the mine exploited them, a charge the company denies. (PHOTOS: To See the World: Marc Riboud’s Eye of the Traveler) Fort Dauphin is a small stretch of arable land bordered by mountains and sea in southeastern Madagascar. When Rio Tinto moved in to set up its mine, the only land it could offer in compensation to displaced locals had little agricultural value, so the company gave out cash. It had a profound effect on the culture. &#8220;We’re fishermen, we’re not used to handling large amounts of money,” said Hasoavana Mahalomba, 33, a construction contractor in Fort Dauphin. “People were buying cars, TVs, generators, drinking. It was like a party every<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=67814&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Europe’s Healthiest Economy Has Its Worst Drug Problem</title>
		<link>http://world.time.com/2013/01/21/why-europes-healthiest-economy-has-its-worst-drug-problem/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Jan 2013 17:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Lewis / Tallinn</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Aivar has already begun to sweat. His last hit of &#8220;China white&#8221; was yesterday evening. Shortly his limbs will begin to ache, and if he doesn&#8217;t get a fix soon he will vomit what little food and water he&#8217;s had since waking up two hours earlier. He is at a needle exchange in the center of Estonia’s capital Tallinn and is using the opportunity to reflect on the deaths of his closest friends and the four overdoses he has suffered since he started injecting drugs 14 years ago. The 32-year-old understands how easily he could add to the statistic. One day the defibrillators will not work, he says. Still he can&#8217;t stop. Neither can so many other Estonians. Estonia has the highest number of per capita drug fatalities anywhere in Europe. The reason is fentanyl. Colloquially it is called China white, Persian white or Afghan. But they&#8217;re misnomers — glamorous tags attached to a powder, prosaically synthesized in clandestine labs across the border in Russia. It arrived in 2002 during a heroin drought. It never went away. These days it is the drug of choice for the many thousands of dedicated injectors in Tallinn. And, according to government chemists at the sparkling new labs in the capital&#8217;s Estonian Forensic Science Institute, it is anywhere between 100 and a thousand times stronger than the scag it replaced. (MORE: It Ain’t All Snow: Swiss Cities Have Some of the Highest Cocaine Use in Europe) The effectiveness of the drug makes it easy to smuggle. The largest single police bust last year was a batch of 1.5 kg — small enough to fit in a knapsack, but enough for almost 40,000 doses of the drug on the street. Uncut, it is hardly detectable at all. The tiny brown-powder doses carried around by addicts in fingernail-size sachets of aluminum foil have to be cut with whey powder or glucose to make them &#8220;safe&#8221; for humans. Typically, says Aime Riikoja, chief chemist at the Estonian Forensic Science Institute, the purity level is from 5% to 10%.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=64857&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>By Ceding Northeastern Syria to the Kurds, Assad Puts Turkey in a Bind</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Jul 2012 18:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Piotr Zalewski / Istanbul</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The retreat of President Bashar al-Assad&#8217;s forces from parts of northeastern Syria along the Turkish border might have been welcomed by Turkey, a key supporter of the Syrian rebellion, except for one thing: The region is predominantly Kurdish, and Ankara fears the resulting power vacuum will be a major boon to its number one enemy, the Kurdistan Workers&#8217; Party (PKK) whose three-decade separatist insurgency has seen some 40,000 people killed. Until recently, Syria&#8217;s Kurds had been divided. A coalition of roughly a dozen Kurdish parties had tentatively backed the popular uprising against Assad, while the PKK&#8217;s Syrian ally, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), appeared to align itself with the Syrian regime, intimidating opposition activists and quashing popular protests. Others sat on the sidelines, wary of closing ranks with a Sunni Arab-dominated opposition that turned a deaf ear to Kurdish demands for new rights in a post-Assad Syria. Two weeks ago – perhaps sensing that the regime&#8217;s fall was imminent – the rival Syrian Kurdish political currents put aside their differences, under the coaching of Iraqi Kurdish leader Massoud Barzani. In Irbil, capital of Iraq&#8217;s autonomous Kurdish Regional Government, they signed a unity agreement that has allowed them to take control of several northeastern towns, Assad&#8217;s forces mostly retreating without a fight. The news sparked a Turkish media and political clamor about the imminent rise of a &#8220;PKK Republic&#8221; or a &#8220;Western Kurdistan&#8221; on Turkey&#8217;s southern flank. Commentators fear that the rise of a second  Kurdish statelet, following the emergence of the one in neighboring Iraq in 2003, would embolden Turkey&#8217;s own 12-15 million Kurds to pursue their own dream of autonomy. Worse still, it could potentially provide the PKK &#8212; branded as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the U.S., and the EU &#8212; with sanctuaries from which to launch cross-border attacks. (MORE: Five Syria Nightmares: The Middle East Can’t Live with Assad, but Living Without Him Won’t Be Easy) Picking up where the media left off, Turkey&#8217;s fiery leader, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan, banged the war drums. Though he<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=world.time.com&#038;blog=19871253&#038;post=37754&#038;subd=timeglobalspin&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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