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...Driving up the highway Saturday afternoon (Iraq time), I saw clear signs of preparations in the scores of small mud-and-brick forts that line the strategically important road. Officials were not immediately available for comment, and there had been no announcement of any specific military build-up. But when I passed this way en route to Basra only three days ago, most of the forts were empty or thinly manned. Now they were abuzz with activity...
...ability to help prevent heart attacks began when scientists noticed that people in rural France have a very low incidence of heart disease despite fatty diets. As a result, researchers were able to link the moderate consumption of red wine in the region to the prevention of plaque build-up in the heart’s arteries...
...Gujarat and last month when Muslim gunmen besieged a Hindu temple in the same western Indian state. These sources say that the U.S. played a key role in keeping the two nations at bay. On at least one occasion, the Pentagon's spy satellites picked up a sudden, secret build-up of Indian forces along the frontier. Washington made a 3 a.m. phone call to New Delhi warning Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee's government to step back from the brink. Faced with U.S. pressure, the Indians complied...
...since any University moves in Allston are many years off, a build-up of biotech around Harvard’s land will take time...
...None of the Taliban fleeing from the north are heading to Kandahar for a last stand. They know it would be suicidal; the U.S. bombers would spot such a build-up and pulverize the Taliban forces. But most of the Taliban fighters are up in the mountains of Oruzgan and Zabol. Mullah Omar is thought to be hiding up there, too, though the Taliban say he turned up in Kandahar at least once this week...