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...stinking hangar crammed with over 1,600 asylum seekers and surrounded by police and a high wire fence. But that's exactly where 99 Iraqi Kurd and Afghan migrants badly wanted to be last week. we want to go to Sangatte or to die, read one handmade banner held aloft by a group of young men who occupied the Calais Church of Saint Pierre-Saint Paul, about 8 km from Sangatte. Most had paid thousands of dollars to people smugglers to get them this far, and they hoped to use Sangatte as a base from which to sneak into...
...connected to a car battery to provide an ignition spark, and then?whoosh!?the rockets shoot up into the stratosphere. It's illegal, and very, very dangerous, but that doesn't deter the moonshine-lubricated spectators crouched near the launching platform from placing bets on whose rocket can stay aloft the longest...
...White House is more important than, say, punishing Wellstone for breaking his promise to retire after two terms or Iowa's Tom Harkin for obtaining a tape of his opponent's strategy meeting. But as long as war fever surpasses economic chills and President Bush's poll numbers remain aloft, the Democrats may have a hard time persuading anyone to care...
...White House is more important than, say, punishing Wellstone for breaking his promise to retire after two terms or Iowa's Tom Harkin for obtaining a tape of his opponent's strategy meeting. But as long as war fever surpasses economic chills and President Bush's poll numbers remain aloft, the Democrats may have a hard time persuading anyone to care...
...effort. Pony trails snake along mountain ridges, terraced rice paddies tumble down steep slopes, wisps of smoke rise from straw huts, and eagles hover on thermals far below. Those who undertake the climb midweek will, more likely than not, have the summit to themselves. Few experiences can match sitting aloft and alone on Mount Ramelau, enjoying a good Portuguese red with crackers, while watching shards of sunlight pierce the clouds, illuminating the valley below. "God lives up there," the policeman in Hatu Buliko had told me before I began the climb. He's probably right...