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...political situation that made it possible for the Taliban to take control in Afghanistan will now emerge in Iraq. Foreign, mainly Arab, volunteers may enter the country in massive numbers, carrying with them one great desire: to fight the U.S. soldiers who occupy the country. The foreseeable future looks bleak when one takes into account that the voluntary jihadists have a clear-cut goal and a fanatic determination and that the U.S. won't easily withdraw its troops from Iraq. MOSES NDELEBE Pretoria...
...triumphant mission of the U.S. spacecraft Mariner 4 [in 1965] brought some reality to musings about Mars. The craft flew past the planet at a distance of only 9,800 kilometers, transmitting 22 television pictures of a bleak, moonlike landscape pockmarked by craters and showing no signs of life. Even so, hope persisted. To demonstrate that a Mariner flyby at a distance of thousands of miles might completely overlook a thriving civilization, a young and still unknown Carl Sagan that same year sifted through a thousand pictures of Earth shot by a weather satellite orbiting only 480 kilometers...
...Whether or not book piracy ends, one veteran of the street-side industry thinks the future is bleak. "No one's buying books these days," says Pramod Kumar (no relation to Praveen), who sells an assortment of books and magazines in Connaught Place. "They're all watching TV serials." After 22 years in the business, he says he's thinking of changing professions. With a grin that exposes two rows of blackened teeth, he confides, "The future...
BURLINGTON, VT.—Things looked bleak for the Harvard men’s soccer team heading into the closing minutes of the first half of its home opener against the University of Rhode Island yesterday...
...talking down the euro at Stockholm's Central Station last week. "Monetary union will lead to worse conditions in the workplace." It's difficult to fight against the politics of fear, but the yes side has raised the stakes in the debate by hinting Sweden faces a bleak future without the euro. In a newspaper article, Carl-Henric Svanberg, the CEO of phone-giant Ericsson, said that companies would stop investing in Sweden and might even move out of the country if voters reject the euro. Opponents note Denmark did precisely that in 2000 and nothing dire happened there. Persson...