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...parks and trying to stow away on cross-Channel ferries. Since then, the huge warehouse has become a staging post on the international smuggling route to the U.K. A staggering 60,000 people have passed through Sangatte over the past three years. Despite nightly news footage of people clambering aboard Channel Tunnel trains - and vigorous protests from the British - the French authorities pretended the problem didn't exist. But after winning power on a law-and-order platform, France's new right-wing government decided to act. In September, French Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy and his British counterpart David Blunkett...
...gassed. We hope it will not be like the Kursk!" As a thick, visible mist enveloped hostages and their takers in Moscow's House of Culture theater, Anya cried for help through her cell phone. The hostage thought she was about to suffocate slowly just like the sailors trapped aboard the crippled Russian submarine Kursk in 2000. "We see it, we feel it, we are breathing through our clothes. We are all going to be blown...
...Wellstone never wavered in his convictions, but he gradually adjusted his style to the courtly atmosphere of the Senate. Just how well he had adapted was evident in the hours after his campaign plane crashed two miles from a small airport last Friday 175 miles north of Minneapolis. (Also aboard were Wellstone's wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three campaign-staff members and two pilots. There were no survivors.) "Despite the marked contrast between Paul's and my views on matters of government and politics," said Helms, his onetime nemesis, "he was my friend...
...Wellstone never wavered in his convictions, but he gradually adjusted his style to the courtly atmosphere of the Senate. Just how well he had adapted was evident in the hours after his campaign plane crashed two miles from a small airport last Friday 175 miles north of Minneapolis. (Also aboard were Wellstone's wife Sheila, daughter Marcia, three campaign-staff members and two pilots. There were no survivors.) "Despite the marked contrast between Paul's and my views on matters of government and politics," said Helms, his onetime nemesis, "he was my friend...
...Abraham really exist? Skeptical readers objected to our cover story as nothing more than myth. "To treat Abraham as a historical figure is like presenting Noah's Ark as fact, complete with measurements and an inventory of all the animals aboard," wrote a Kansas man. Equally unconvinced was a Californian who declared, "Bringing together Christians, Jews and Muslims through their love of Abraham is about as likely as unifying them through a belief in Santa Claus." And a New Jersey reader went the furthest: "More important than recognizing the shared significance of Abraham would be acknowledging that the story itself...