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They called it "the CNN defense." In the early 1990s, just after the Baltic states won independence from Moscow, the region's strategy in the event of a Russian attack was to hold out just long enough for a camera crew to arrive - and then pray for help from the West. This week in Prague the prayers of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania will be answered, as all three countries receive formal invitations to join NATO. But given the weakness of the countries' militaries, why is NATO admitting them? And in the absence of any obvious Russian threat...
About half the population of Europe lives along rivers, but suddenly water was the bane of the Continent. Fed by torrential rains, floods from the Black Sea to the Baltic took roughly 100 lives, left thousands homeless and caused billions of dollars' worth of damage to the farms, cities and hamlets of Central and Eastern Europe. Prague looked like a city under siege. Military rescue vehicles rumbled down the Czech capital's flooded streets, in which soldiers, firemen and volunteers labored to rescue stranded citizens and keep the Vltava River, which winds through the city, from destroying architectural treasures. They...
...hastily built, 2-km-long floodwall, the historic Old Town - home to such treasures as the Old Town Square, the 15th century Astronomical Clock and the famous Jewish quarter - was largely spared. Other parts of Europe were not so lucky, as torrential downpours sent floodwaters raging from the Baltic to the Black Sea, killing at least 100 people and causing billions of dollars' worth of damage to buildings, infrastructure and crops. In Austria, a 50-sq-km lake blanketed the Eferdinger Basin, an agricultural area west of Linz, and at least seven people died. In Germany, large tracts of Saxony...
...mildly, Malone's European strategy is a contrarian play. But that's what he has always sought. Now that many cable companies have exhausted themselves and the patience of their bankers by trying to string copper wire and coaxial cable from the North Sea to the Baltic to the Mediterranean, he can come in and scoop up the fruits of their labors for pennies on the euro. "What seems to be cheap seems to get cheaper as one waits," he quipped, with his typically dry sense of humor, at the recent shareholder meeting of Liberty Media, the onetime TCI programming...
...being among the hijackers of the plane that crashed in Pennsylvania, exhibited none of the alienation or obsessiveness that characterized other suspects. His cousin Salim Jarrah, 26, who owns a trattoria, catering service and dry-cleaning establishment in the town of Greifswald on Germany?s Baltic Sea coast, says Ziad preferred discos to "veiled women." He recalls him sneaking shots from a bottle of whisky hidden in the refrigerator at a cousin?s wedding. "He had everything going for him: he came from a good family, he knew a good job was waiting for him at home...