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...Civil liberty groups are also skeptical about whether the plans will work. "What is the point of this? To build this massive haystack of information is not helpful, and does not make sense," says Tony Bunyan, head of London-based Statewatch. "The E.U. is actually ahead of the U.S. in creating a surveillance society. This proposal means that within ten years, all the population in Europe will be fingerprinted...
...Joins the mujahedin in Afghanistan. Works as a correspondent for radical Islamist magazine Al Bunyan Al Marsus...
...Indeed, just down the street, pumps at gas stations were toppled. Strip malls were no more. The Paul Bunyan head from the statue outside the Lauterbach auto shop was missing. Buses, mobile homes, pontoon boats, delivery trucks - all tipped on their side, thrown like toys. "We're taking our trucks, everything we got, to do what we can to pick up trees, whatever," said Steve Ferrier, a Springfield water department employee. "I'm 34, and I've just never seen anything like this. It has just devastated the city...
Carver came with immediate problems: Jacobs had to sell more boats in a soft economy. Among Carver's assets was Ranger Boats, which had been founded by Forrest L. Wood, a pine-tree- tall Arkansan in a Stetson who is pretty much the Paul Bunyan of bass fishing. Ranger, along with other fishing-industry firms, had for years sponsored fishing tournaments, but the payouts had been small because the companies couldn't afford big prizes...
Everything here is done on a scale that would make Paul Bunyan feel right at home. The electric-powered shovels that mine the sands are several stories tall. Dozens of giant yellow earthmoving trucks lumber in and out of the mine carrying tons of freshly excavated sand. The largest ones weigh as much as 400 tons--more than 200 times the size of the average car. The trucks use huge tires that cost $55,000 each. The drivers sit so high above ground that one says piloting these behemoths is "like driving a two-story house from the second-floor...