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...keep you stuck on a single page. It's in the task of making all those dazzling sentences add up to a novel that he sometimes goes astray. Some of the sharpest words concern Clint Smoker's odious tabloid, the Lark. What was in a terrorist group's "dirty bomb?"an editor asks. "Radioactive medical waste, Chief, plus ringworm, West Nile virus, liquid gangrene and a cladding of mad cow." The bombing story is squeezed out by news of a man injured outside a kiddies' swimming pool when he is caught watching too closely and flees with his pants round...
...demographic time bomb...
...artist's sensibility toward architecture. I wanted to see what architecture can be when art comes first." But the place also introduced him to a circle of friends who would go on to become the loosely affiliated group that the British call the YBAs--Young British Artists. Cultural bomb throwers, most of them collected and promoted by the wealthy ad executive Charles Saatchi, they tumbled loudly into America four years ago in the "Sensation" show at the Brooklyn Museum of Art in New York City...
...scale of the military and financial commitment required to stabilize and rebuild Iraq has prompted the realization in Washington that the U.S. needs UN support even more in peacetime than it did in going to war. The ongoing security crisis in Iraq was underscored by a deadly bomb blast during Friday prayers at one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines, the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf. Among the more than 80 people killed was Ayatollah Mohammed Bakr al-Hakim, head of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq - the most important Shiite group participating in the Iraqi Governing...
...SENTENCED. Muhammad el-Omari, Yassine Lahnach, Rachid Jalil, Hassan Tawsi, to death for their roles in five suicide bomb attacks that killed 45 people, including 12 bombers, in May; in Casablanca. The four are members of outlawed terrorist group Salafia Jihadia, which targets U.S. interests and Jews in Morocco. Four Spaniards and three French nationals died in the attacks...