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...people of Iraq to believe he would never be able to touch them again. The streets of Baghdad itched with rumors. The Americans missed him by 10 minutes or 10 yards. He's in Russia, in Syria, on an island off the coast of Spain. No, he's right beneath our feet--he and a thousand guards hiding under the city in bunkers with a two-year stock of food and water, waiting to stage a coup when the U.S. withdraws. No, he left last fall and went to North Korea, which offered shelter in return for help with...
Chase wrote in the Atlantic Monthly that lecturers were known for a rabidly “anti-technology message” and a “despairing depiction of the sinister forces that lie beneath the surface of civilization.” Kaczynski, only 16 years old when he entered Harvard, was particularly susceptible to these messages because he was exceptionally bright and extraordinarily conscientious Chase says...
This time of year in Japan, sake drinking becomes a national pursuit. As the ubiquitous cherry blossoms briefly turn the country pink, clusters of friends and relatives converge to claim squares of picnic space beneath the trees. They admire the blooms, sing songs and devour delicacies, but mostly they get uproariously drunk on cup after cup of sake...
...never found people to testify to such charges - no player dared, for fear of getting far worse. On Saturday, TIME found what may be the first solid proof of torture in Uday's own backyard - the administrative compound of the Olympic committee in central Baghdad. Laying on its side beneath a pile of dead leaves not 20 meters from Uday's office was a refugee from a medieval dungeon: an iron maiden. About two meters tall, a meter wide and just deep enough to contain a grown man, the iron sarcophagus-shaped device was worn from use; rusty three-inch...
...imported wine, barbecued local mutton and a dip in a hot tub powered by a wood fire. Nomadic Expeditions has built a lodge in the Gobi Desert. And while there's really no way to catch the feel of Mongolia's big sky other than by driving for days beneath it, Nomadic Expeditions offers a flat-tire-proof alternative for reaching remote rafting and fishing sites: Russian-built helicopters. In the mountain rivers and streams, anglers stalk the ferocious taimen, a Siberian relative of the salmon that can grow to about 5 ft. long and weigh more than...