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...statues point east, but the next war would come to Basra from the south, the scene of Iraq's humiliation in 1991, when U.S.-led forces drove the Iraqi military from Kuwait. A sand barrier and trench constructed by Kuwait after the Gulf War to prevent infiltrators from crossing over now separates Iraq from Kuwait, and beyond it are the massing ranks of the invasion force. As he peers into the distance in the midday haze, vegetable farmer Shadat Dafeh Hamed mumbles, "I can't see them, but I know they are there." Hamed, 70, lives closer to the enemy...
...It’s possibly true for some people that [having to deal with smoke] is a barrier to entry,” he says, “[but] it’s part of the business...
...appeared to undercut that decision by offering to sweeten the deals, François Lamoureux, the Commission's director-general for transport, threatened last week to drag into court any state that accepts. But E.U. efforts to draw up a new deal aren't expected to break the sound barrier - and meanwhile, airlines complain, they're left flying in legal limbo...
Last fall, network TV finally broke the bulls___ barrier: ABC's NYPD Blue got network permission to use the standard vulgarity for cattle feces. And a remarkable thing happened--or rather, didn't. Local affiliates were not deluged with angry calls. ABC did not lose millions of dollars of advertising. The move practically begged for the eternal question, "Has TV gone too far?" Instead, millions of viewers quietly concluded that, no, TV had gone just the right amount...
...including the 33-year-old driver of the tractor-trailer which broke through the concrete barrier in the median strip and ran into the path of traffic, has been charged...