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...Kilinochchi's importance is only partly strategic. It is one of several key areas of territory along the A9 highway, a road toward the northern tip of the teardrop-shaped island and one of the main supply routes into Mullaitivu, the thick jungle areas where the LTTE is believed to base its operations. Symbolically, Kilinochchi is more important. The 463 square mile (1,200 sq. km.) district it governs has been under LTTE control for more than 10 years, ever since the Sri Lankan Army lost a battle known as Operation Unceasing Waves in September...
...true, of course, that no family's child-care worries last forever. But the kind of care on offer affects everyone, whether they're changing nappies or not. For one thing, over the next four years Australian taxpayers will fork out more than $A9 billion to subsidize child care. A shortage of places is keeping women - and their much-needed skills - out of a workforce in which they play an increasingly important role. There's ample international evidence, too, that the quality of a country's child care affects the way its kids grow up. And if - as many experts...
...Once you finally clear the border and settle into the Tiger-owned A9 Guesthouse in the Tiger administrative capital Killinochchi, sip a Tiger-served beer and tuck into Tiger-grown rice and Tiger-cooked curry, it becomes impossible to think of your hosts only as rebels. Whether previously you saw them as mad bombers or brave martyrs, it becomes plain that the Tigers also have other identities: bureaucrats, firemen, nurses, farmers, restaurateurs and video store entrepreneurs. There are those who resist this complication. They say it humanizes evil and that if someone is a terrorist or supports terrorism, that...
...search-engine war is heating up. Amazon's A9.COM SEARCH ENGINE, a challenger to Google, began letting users take a virtual walk down the block last week. A9 has gathered and organized 20 million photos of 10 U.S. cities, using digital cameras, GPS receivers and special software. Plug an address into A9's Yellow Pages, and you can see your neighborhood. Ask for the nearest drugstore, church or just about anything else you want, and A9 will take you on a digitized stroll there...
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