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...Baghdad-connected highways that run through Madain make the area a natural transit point for the bombers that sow mayhem in the capital. A preferred insurgent tactic for evading detection is to construct car bombs and IEDs as close as possible to their target in or around Baghdad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thin Green Line Outside Baghdad | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

...commander believes his brigade is succeeding in limiting the number of bombs entering Baghdad. But he's unsure whether the bomb-makers live in the area or are brought in to construct the devices. "If I had that answer, man, I'd go out and whack 'em right now," Grigsby says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Thin Green Line Outside Baghdad | 8/1/2007 | See Source »

...Shanghai, China’s progress is undeniable. In addition to having scores of new skyscrapers, the city is now also considerably cleaner. Granted, a gray haze still blankets the sky on most days, but large cities like Shanghai have made a concerted effort to reduce pollution and construct beautiful public parks amidst the downtown buildings...

Author: By Jimmy Y. Li | Title: Holding My Breath | 7/13/2007 | See Source »

...Gibraltar will still separate Spain from Morocco, but the underlying sea bed—and possibly Spanish-Moroccan relations—will never be the same again. No, it isn’t a miscalculation of a Pangea Ultima configuration; the governments of Spain and Morocco just agreed to construct an underwater tunnel to connect their rail systems. But with their announcement came little fanfare...

Author: By Patrick JEAN Baptiste | Title: Big Dig in the Mediterranean | 6/28/2007 | See Source »

...Steven A. Ballmer ’77, Microsoft’s current chief executive officer and Gates’s college acquaintance, contributed $25 million to construct the computer science building Maxwell Dworkin...

Author: By Kevin Zhou, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gates To Return to The Yard | 6/6/2007 | See Source »

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