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...signaling a major assault on Marja, hoping that that this tactic would draw the Taliban out of the heavily populated areas around the Helmand River - a major opium poppy growing area and a source of Taliban funds - and enable coalition and Afghan forces to re-capture and establish government control over this major Taliban bastion without causing too many civilian casualties...
Hours before the ceremony began, Nodar Kumaritashvili, a 21-year-old luger from the former Soviet republic of Georgia, died after a high-speed crash during a training run at the Whistler Sliding Center, north of Vancouver. On the final turn of the track, Kumaritashvili lost control of his sled, struck an inside wall and was catapulted over the low outer wall of the track, into an unpadded steel support column. His sled was traveling at 88 m.p.h. The ghastly replay of the accident was shown several times on Canadian national television. Viewers screamed when they saw the clip...
Though the poll shows waning public concern about getting sick, Stephen C. Redd, director of the Influenza Coordination Unit for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, cautioned against complacency...
...Nicolas Dupont-Aignon, a conservative parliamentarian and usually a supporter of right-wing causes, said that the initiative "completely escaped" the government's control. "The government poorly framed this debate from the outset and - for electoral objectives - spoke of national identity rather than national unity," he says. While the media are now filled with fretting by conservatives about the right's chances in the March elections, politicians on the left aren't tempting fate by predicting victory. The left is, however, using the opportunity to bash Sarkozy's government. "What a fiasco: Operation National Identity, which was supposed to raise...
...part of me says, Here we go again. How many more do we have to have?" Hytten says of the inquiry. His concern is that the ACPP will be altered, and Aborigines in the Northern Territory will have even less command of their own destinies. "People thrive when they control their own lives," he says...