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...days or weeks or at most months before the jihadists would strike again. It has been more than four years. Al-Qaeda knows its inability to repeat 9/11 is a blow to its prestige and pretensions of leading a global jihad. Anyone can put a bomb in a Bali discothèque. But in more than four years, al-Qaeda has not been able to do anything in America even on the scale of Madrid or London...
...political correctness is at work - police haven't cracked down on this behavior as they should have. Commissioner Moroney appeared to sympathize with this view: until it exploded into vigilantism, he said, the protest was legitimate. Recent high-profile rape cases involving Lebanese-Australian perpetrators and memories of the Bali bombings - many of whose victims hailed from the city's southern suburbs - may also have inflamed passions in Cronulla, though locals maintain that at least 80% of the rioters were from elsewhere...
...other cities in Southeast Asia, with a sparkling new performing-arts center and some of the best restaurants in the world. After decades of strong economic growth, per-capita income last year was $24,220, about the same as Italy. As they trip around Asia, popping off to Bali or Perth for the weekend while dressed in Prada and Gucci, wealthier Singaporeans could be forgiven for pitying their former European masters, whose day in the sun - they will sometimes tell you - is now all but over...
...lanes of Southeast Asia. Piracy has become an all too real contemporary scourge for fishing and commerce across an expanse of ocean stretching from the Malay peninsula to the Philippines. Sumatran pirates constantly harass coastal freighters and fishermen in the Straits of Malacca ... Pleasure boats headed toward Bali from Hong Kong and Thailand are warned to stay away from the Celebes Sea. Cutlass and sword are pass?. Asian pirates today pounce from hidden coves in supercharged speedboats or trawlers armed with automatic rifles, M-79 grenade launchers and even antitank guns. Their easiest prey is the flotilla of fishing trawlers...
...providing better health care and starting yoga classes. ?The idea is to be an example to the other employers on the island,? she says. ?Like we are with our organic farming,? says John. And then he pauses. ?What if we could turn all of Bali organic? What would it take? Imagine what would happen to the health of our children, our environment, if we just took this little island and made it Organic Experiment No. 1.? His wife smiles and nods her head. Already the gears are falling into place. It may sound like...