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...killer whale. On Feb. 24, in the middle of an otherwise routine show, the 40-year-old trainer was standing at the edge of a tank when the 29-year-old animal leaped from the water, grabbed her by the ponytail and began thrashing her about. As horrified visitors watched both from around the tank and from the viewing window below, Tilikum then dragged Brancheau underwater to her death...
Apparently created by a 17-year-old Russian techie bored of his Moscow friends and looking for some foreign excitement, the Internet’s undeniably creepiest creation yet began with nothing but high hopes and good intentions. The premise is bizarre, yet strangely endearing. You simply type in those magical letters, click “Start,” and find yourself suddenly transported to a face-to-face webcam encounter with anyone from lonely middle-aged men to drunken New Zealand rugby players...
This year, the saga began with a foray into internet voting technology. “We added a poll of all the seniors at the very beginning of the year, so we made sure to include everyone’s preferences concretely,” explains First Class Marshal Nworah B. Ayogu...
...first job was to regain control of the streets, which were in the hands of criminal gangs and radical militias. With the help of U.S. General Keith Dayton, the Palestinians trained five brigades (2,500 troops) of a new national-security force - with two more in the pipeline - and began training local police. "We started with Nablus, the most lawless city," says Fayyad. "Our policy was zero tolerance. Anyone who committed a crime was an outlaw, regardless of party affiliation." It seems to have worked. Nell Derick Debevoise, an American woman who works with an excellent pre- and after-school...
...keep a close watch on Afghanistan's difficult neighbor. Pakistan's support for the Taliban and the Haqqani network has frequently bedeviled U.S. military plans, as Afghan fighters have too easily slipped across the border and found sanctuary. But a year's worth of diplomatic pressure on Islamabad began to pay off before Operation Moshtarak: Pakistan launched a major military offensive of its own in South Waziristan, not against the Afghan Taliban but against its Pakistani cousins known as the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan...