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...ceremony, the foundation stone vanishes. Nearby townspeople report seeing police remove it along with the brick base in the night. The next day Inspector General Ashok Kumar Bhan confirms his men's involvement, claiming the mourners were trespassing on state-owned land under Section 447 of the Kashmir penal code. "Obviously they cannot erect such a thing on government land," he says. The summit is over and forgotten; the mourning in Kashmir?whatever sort is allowed?continues...
...Roads run in numbingly straight lines, up to 30 km without a bend, their ends shimmering and liquefying in optical illusions as they bleed into the sky; families live on remote cattle properties, hundreds of kilometers from their nearest neighbors. As a result, country friendliness here extends to a code of mutual assistance on the road. Vehicles take such a pounding that breakdowns are common. Stranded travelers are not strangers to these folk, but friends in need?though that tradition is gradually being eroded. "You've got to be careful," says Rodney, from the Anmatjere Aboriginal community, south of Barrow...
...necessarily. If I simply knew that he had committed the crime and I didn?t say anything to anyone, and no one asked me any questions about the murder, I would be perfectly safe (legally) keeping quiet. On the other hand, according to U.S. Code, if someone approached me and asked me if I knew anything about the murder, and I lied and said no, I could be charged with obstruction of justice...
...What am I talking about? I'm talking about the fact that Windows XP, the next generation PC operating system which just entered its penultimate testing phase, has had its Java removed. Java is the plug-and-play web application that works on any machine. It is the code behind most of the animation on tens of thousands of websites out there. It is what, for many years, made the American flag flutter at whitehouse.gov, and examples don't get much more patriotic than that...
...flew over clouds in total radio silence. No one talked. I admit I had some doubt. I wondered what happened to the first group. Would they succeed or would the Americans come after them? A Morse code signal came in from the first wave: "Ready to attack." A few seconds later, we heard, "Tora, tora, tora." Surprise attack. But I could see 200 to 300 bombs exploding on the ground. I immediately thought the first group must be under counterattack from the Americans...