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...prominent magistrate who was killed by the Mafia in 1992 when his parked car was blown to pieces. The slaying of Borsellino and his five bodyguards came just three months after his friend and prosecutor colleague Giovanni Falcone met the same fate on a highway bridge near the Palermo airport (now named Falcone-Borsellino, like so many streets and piazzas across Sicily...
...tour of the city's earthen and floodwall defenses last week, Van Heerden said levee problems could endanger areas that were not flooded after Katrina, including the west bank of the Mississippi and the western suburbs of New Orleans, most notably near the airport, an area crucial to every evacuation plan...
...Many of my fellow patients were injured by remote-controlled bombs, planted in roads like Route Irish, a five-mile stretch from the hospital to Baghdad International Airport. It is one thing to hear about the roadside explosions, and another to go for a ride with an HBO cameraman along "the most dangerous road in the world." The viewer sees the deadly effects all too plainly: concrete curbs smashed every few yards from explosions...
...movie offers few clues. It is, essentially, a two-hour PowerPoint presentation, enlivened - if that's the right word - by periodic shots of Al Gore staring pensively out of plane windows, Al Gore frowning contemplatively at computer screens, and Al Gore pacing thoughtfully through airport terminals. The man could make playing a kazoo look like meditation. The movie is about the threat of global warming, and it is full of dire predictions and horrifying scenarios for the Earth's future should we not change our fossil-fuel-guzzling ways. Rising sea levels, hordes of refugees, parching draughts: Call...
...should knock to have access to the Opus Dei! “By the way, I am rather slow. It is only after three years I finally bought ‘The Da Vinci Code’ waiting for a colleague’s late arrival at Logan airport. I reached just chapter 4 of the book...