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Mary Lee Gunn, 58, a middle-school math teacher from Auburn, N.Y., filled a small black box with marbles last week and carefully hid it along the edge of a canal. Using a GPS (global positioning system) device, she recorded the exact geographic coordinates of her stash. Then, when she got home, she posted the box's location--along with some digital pictures taken near the spot and hints on how to find it--on the Web and invited anybody who was interested to try to find...
...half a dozen freight lines operating in Asia that accept paying passengers, which charge $70-$130 per day per person. Voyages range in duration from a 10-day short hop to an epic 114 days (the latter being Houston to Houston on the Egon Oldendorff line, via the Suez Canal, with Jakarta the easternmost port). All the lines have age limits for passengers, ranging from 70 to 80 years; none offer doctors on board...
...only stopped because the man looked so incongruous, running along the bank of a drainage canal, wearing a flowing black dishdash and holding aloft a flaming torch like some athlete carrying the Olympic flame. I should have known better than to get out of the car for a closer look: all the other vehicles on the fly-over into the western Baghdad district of Al-Ghadeer were speeding away. Mohammed, my driver/translator, shouted at me to stop, but I assumed he was warning me about the approaching traffic. I didn't sense danger until I approached the green verge alongside...
...fears. At the start of the war, the schoolteacher had taken her family to their ancestral home in Diyala province, hoping to spare her aged mother the trauma of the bombing. When they returned, three days after the fall of Baghdad, she found the mounds of ordnance along the canal. Even closer to home, there were clusters of artillery shells on a patch of gravel at the back of her modest two-story brick and concrete home. "We thought the war was over and we would be safe," she said, "but I look outside my window and I know...
...Post, Kelly never lost his thirst for reporting. A few weeks ago, at 46, he returned to Iraq as a correspondent embedded with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division. He became the first American journalist killed in the war, when the humvee he was riding in plunged into a canal while evading Iraqi fire near Baghdad last week...