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...never existed? The question hovered above a grizzled Prime Minister Blair as he faced Members of Parliament one last time and accompanied a rejuvenated Prime Minister Brown as he first entered 10 Downing Street as its master. But its most visible expression was the limousine, an armor-plated Jaguar reserved for Britain's Premier, that carried Blair to Buckingham Palace to tender his resignation to the Queen, then waited to collect Brown after he accepted Her Majesty's request to form a new government. Blair left the palace a private man in a regular car, gearing up for the uncertainties...
...very least some bulletproof vests. Robert Stellingworth, president of the non-profit New Orleans Police and Justice Foundation, told the panel how private funds were needed to replace police body armor lost in the floods since the city-whose tax base has fallen off precipitously since the disaster-couldn't afford it and FEMA couldn't guarantee that it could reimburse the city to replace the waterlogged vests. It's not exactly what an officer in one of the nation's most gun-ridden cities wants to hear. "You just cannot ask officers to worry about whether FEMA's going...
...insurgents have upgraded their weaponry. A field commander of the Islamic Army told me his men had produced "hundreds" of huge IEDs more destructive than the armor-piercing bombs that, the U.S. believes, are being smuggled into Iraq from Iran. He said the new bombs are being buried deep in dirt tracks on the outskirts of Baghdad that are likely to be used by American patrols. Some of the bombs are planted in sewers and irrigation culverts; their concrete lining would direct most of the force of an explosion upward - enough to "turn an Abrams tank into an airplane...
...course the tangible. The research being done at Historic Jamestowne, including some breakthrough discoveries in recent years, is giving us new insights into exactly what took place so long ago. Since 1994, in fact, archaeologists have uncovered a vast array of artifacts--ceramics, jewelry, tools, coins, furnishings, food, armor and arms--that have illuminated the conditions, trials, troubles and heroics of this colonial English outpost in the New World. Simply as a story of humanity in adversity, it is a stunning and instructive tale...
...managed to map out the triangle shape of the fort along with the foundations of at least five buildings, several wells and a burial ground. His team has also dug up more than a million artifacts, about twice the number found over the previous half-century, including arms and armor, pottery, clay pipes, clothing and shoes, iron tools, jewelry, animal bones, trade beads, sheets of copper and hundreds of stone points. Individually, these objects seem trivial. Taken together, however, they're yielding an extraordinary picture of who the colonists were and how they lived--something contemporaneous written accounts couldn...