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...Philippines to withdraw its peacekeepers from Iraq in exchange for the release of a Philippine truck driver who was kidnapped by insurgents is to be applauded [Aug. 9]. Surely it is the duty of any government to safeguard its own people before anything else. The Philippines did not cave in to U.S. pressure or sacrifice one of its citizens to satisfy the Bush Administration. C.A. Van Meurs Christchurch, New Zealand...
...drawn only limited response and thus perhaps emboldened Osama bin Laden. "Al-Qaeda underestimated us, see," Bush told TIME aboard Air Force One in December 2001. "He [bin Laden] thought we're soft. He made a huge miscalculation, huge. And I'm sure he's now cowering in some cave, wondering, you know, what went wrong...
...offerings to the trash can. Luckily, a committed cadre of record-shop owners are still keeping the vinyl dream alive. Here's where to replenish your wax. VIENNA Tucked away in the Windmühlgasse, just behind the city's busy Mariahilferstrasse shopping street, lies an Aladdin's cave of audio treats. Teuchtler is crammed with more than 180,000 records-split between classical, jazz and pop-as well as some 40,000 old 78s. The store once sold a rare shellac of Austrian violinist Marie Roeger-Soldat (born 1863) playing Mozart for $3,000, but most of the vinyl...
...Inside, the cave floor slopes away in the dim light to a wide and uneven ledge before dropping abruptly into a large chamber which curves away out of sight. The only sound is of water dripping somewhere. As he crouches on the slimy ledge among the slender tips of stalactites, the torch light suddenly catches splashes of color on the chamber's far side. There are about 15 stencils, some in such a rich russet they almost glow against the pale limestone, silhouettes of adult hands both left and right, one with a forearm also stenciled, several others with curiously...
...Hand stencils have been found in only three other caves in Tasmania's spectacularly rugged southwest, all reachable by only the keenest of bushwalkers. Dating of those discovered in 1986 in Ballawinne cave, in the Maxwell Valley, provided the first proof that rock art in Australia had survived from the last Ice Age, which ended roughly 10,000 years ago. Tasmania was then joined to the Australian mainland by a land bridge, and though the island's stencils may not be as old as Arnhem Land's tableaux of long-limbed spirits, or as elaborate as the red spectral figures...