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...After setting fire to several buildings in town and waiting until half the garrison mobilized to douse the flames, more than 1,000 rebels attacked the depleted post. Reinforcements arriving the next day found the soldiers' bodies in a line stretched across the sandbag ramparts. Many bore the powder-burn marks of close-range executions. The garrison commander was found decapitated and quartered, his head, arms and legs stuffed in a sleeping bag. All weapons and ammunition had been taken. Only three soldiers survived. The attack, four days after the sixth anniversary of the Maoist rebellion, was the bloodiest...
...this scripted celebration of the last 100 days creates intense irony—now, more than ever, as seniors try to live in the present, to burn in their youth, they are thinking about their future. I don’t just mean that as these future alumni cram in their final hurrahs, most of them will be thinking about upcoming thesis deadlines, planning contingencies if their next job interview falls through or imagining what their friends will all be doing in 20 years. On a more fundamental level, for many seniors these last 100 days are not about living...
Napster's trial version has much the same paltry-selection problem. But assuming it can get its hands on some licenses before it launches, the struggling service shows more promise than its record-label rivals. True, most songs are in the protected .nap format, which means you can't burn them onto a CD. But there are a few independent labels that let Napster offer MP3 files that are yours for life. It is hoped more labels will follow suit...
...course, every song from those kids on the street corner is a play-anywhere, burn-anytime MP3. The big guys may promise more with their secure and speedy downloads, but I'm not switching until I get a file I can keep for, say, a buck a pop. Locking up your mediocre collection is no way to run a music store...
...ferrocyanide, a chemical commonly used in gardening and textile dyeing. According to Aldo Lagana, a professor of analytic chemistry at Rome's La Sapienza University, the substance is not lethal when diluted in water. Lagana noted, however, that potassium ferrocyanide can easily be ignited by ordinary gunpowder. "If you burn it in a closed environment," he says, "you can have a very serious situation." The arrested men might have had an attack of this sort - in a subway, perhaps - in mind...