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...Though the plot has all the hallmarks of an al-Qaeda operation, U.S. officials cautioned that there isn't yet evidence of a direct link between the plotters and the organization's top leaders. "We're not convinced this particular operation is connected to the al-Qaeda chain of command," Charles Allen, Chief of Intelligence for the Department of Homeland Security, told reporters on Thursday afternoon. As for whether the attack was being timed for the fifth anniversary of Sept. 11, Allen said he thought the attack would simply be launched when it was ready. "I am a long-standing...
...Boulder-based company called Renewable Choice Energy, which in turn pays wind farms throughout the country to produce electricity - enough to offset 211 million lbs. of carbon dioxide emissions each year. This purchase makes Vail the second-largest buyer of wind energy in the nation behind the supermarket super-chain Whole Foods, which went 100% wind power with their 458,000 megawatt-hours in January...
...frolicking with a night-vision camera and release it on DVD under the title "1 Night in the Hilton." I will call it this because I hope that, with Paris's connections, we are able to secure a free room for an evening in her family's hotel chain. Or at least a discount. I'm willing to spend up to $75, depending on whether the mini-bar is free...
Certainly, Schrager's too-cool-for-school hotels have been copied relentlessly. Starwood Hotels & Resorts hired architects such as Ricardo Bofill and Charles Gwathmey to design its flourishing W Hotels, a chain many felt was a direct rip-off of Schrager. Marriott's Ritz-Carlton has partnered with the Italian jewelry company Bulgari to create a string of boutique hotels...
...stretch from Burketown to the border. Floods create much of the drama: monsoonal rains and cyclones regularly swell Gulf Country rivers and send stormy seas surging across the low coastline. Early this year, floods inundated 6,000 sq. km of Burke Shire, turning Highway 1 into a chain of atolls; supplies had to be dropped to some settlements by helicopter. At Floraville station, 73 km south of the town-and 80 km inland-the homestead was an island for two weeks, and sharks were seen circling the henhouse. Owner Kylie Camp says her husband Ernie was about to rescue some...