Word: binning
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...news! A small group of self-proclaimed anarchists, calling themselves Funk the War, peeled away from a peaceful protest on the streets of St. Paul and erupted into violence. They pounded cars, smashed windows, hurled bottles and pushed a flaming garbage bin into a police car. Police in riot gear broke up the melee with tear gas and arrested as many as 100 people...
...Republican debate in California, McCain memorably vows to pursue Osama bin Laden to the "gates of hell...
...billion to control the entire long position in oil. That sounds like an enormous amount of money, but some of the major individual players in oil are bigger than the market itself: Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah Muizzaddin, of Brunei Shell Petroleum, is worth about $23 billion; Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud is worth about $21 billion; Russian Vagit Alekperov of LUKoil is worth about $13 billion. No, we're not implicating any of these guys in market rigging; in fact the list of billionaires with that kind of swag is long. The point is that anyone in that category could...
...worthless if you can't find the nail. "There remains the challenge of finding a target in the first place," the report concurs, before explaining that future constellations of space-based spy satellites will make the task easier. Yet despite repeated tries, the U.S. has failed to locate Osama bin Laden, and missed killing Saddam Hussein at the beginning of the last Iraq war when attacking sites where he reportedly was present. The NRC panel implies that both men were in the cross hairs but moved before cruise missiles or bombs obliterated their purported locations, but that remains far from...
...number of European radicals who have actually tried to make it to Afghanistan via Pakistan have been minimal - less than a dozen, at most - the country's reinvigorated jihadist allure is unmistakable. "It was the original jihad against occupying infidels, and it was long al Qaeda's terror sanctuary - bin Laden still lurks there somewhere!" notes a French intelligence official, explaining the thinking of European radicals. "Afghanistan isn't just about killing Americans, but fighting the assembled forces of the world they accuse of attacking Islam...