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...less than you might think. In a genuine nuclear bomb, enriched uranium or plutonium is explosively compressed, fracturing atomic bonds and releasing a cataclysmic blast of intense radiation. A dirty bomb is little more than a pipe bomb with radioactive rubbish packed into...
...Afghan Nation." The only other serious challenger, former President Burhanuddin Rabbani, also pulled out of the race. PAKISTAN Consulate Car Bomb A car bomb exploded outside the U.S. consulate in the southern city of Karachi, injuring more than 40 people and killing at least 11, including the bomber. The blast left a crater about 1.5-m deep and a 3-m-wide hole in the consulate's perimeter wall. The victims included security guards and drivers on the road. One U.S. Marine and five Pakistani consulate employees were among the injured. The U.S. immediately closed diplomatic missions in Pakistan...
Managing the Senate with a one-vote majority hasn't been a picnic; Daschle likens it to "loading frogs on a wheelbarrow." Senate Democrats are a fractured--and fractious--bunch, including liberals itching to blast Bush, Southern "Dealocrats" who want to compromise with the White House, and presidential wannabes with their eyes on the 2004 prize. Daschle, who keeps an index card in his shirt pocket with favors that the Senators want each day, can sit for hours listening to their complaints. He has cultivated all of them, says majority whip Harry Reid, by "convincing each Senator that...
...have finally made it into the top tier of lightweight racing squads and it’s a blast to go out together and challenge anyone for 2,000 meters,” said captain Robin Lockwood at mid-season...
...husband’s 25th, we weren’t sure we were going to go, but we had a blast,” she says. “Even with people you weren’t particularly good friends with 25 years ago, you do have a common, automatic bond...