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...Until last week, when terrorists launched a deadly attack at Davao airport. William Hyde, an American missionary, was outside the crowded terminal sheltering from the rain beneath a protective canopy. According to police, he may have been approached by a young man with a backpack, whom they identify as Montazer Sudang, a 23-year-old with apparent links to the Moro Islamic Liberation Front (MILF), the country's biggest Islamic separatist group. A large pipe bomb, either in Sudang's backpack or carried by an unidentified female accomplice, exploded with an enormous blast. When the smoke cleared, 21 people were...
When the letter from Exeter arrived, Hernandez was so unsure of her English, she thought she had somehow misunderstood. She slipped it into her backpack, and when she got to school the next day, she asked her counselor to read it and tell her what it said. Not only had she been accepted, she’d been given a scholarship, only two years after arriving in the United States...
...bomb, he adds, was carried in a tartan backpack?fragments of which have been recovered?and was almost certainly detonated while still on its bearer's back. The gruesome evidence for this scenario includes the bomber's remains?two legs cut off at the knees and a face sufficiently intact to allow police artists to draw a likeness?and spatterings of his blood on the roof...
Watanabe's collection for spring/summer 2003 is a case in point. "I saw someone wearing a backpack, and I thought the silhouette was interesting," he tells TIME. Many of the pieces feature poufed pouches with straps wrapped around bunched-up skirts and ripped pants. Decked out in sporty flats and topped with giant, billowing hats, the models look as though they have parachuted in from rock-climbing--in garden-party florals. Shrugs Watanabe: "I don't follow rules." --By Lisa Takeuchi Cullen. With reporting by Michiko Toyama/Tokyo...
...Officers took a report of a stolen backpack at Currier House...