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...Jolo town. Accompanied by more than 50 soldiers in jeeps and armored vehicles, his convoy rumbles through small villages. Not long ago, the base's access road was a dirt track where Abu Sayyaf fighters came and went freely, using the dense rainforest as a retreat or as cover for ambushes; the main road through this part of the island was known as the Boulevard of Death. Now the road to the base is lined with houses, and local people wave at the passing troops. Sabban points out with relish that the Army camp is on land owned...
...spokesman for the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party: "This is an economic terror unleashed on the people of this country." Yet the government may be forced into further hikes should crude prices remain high. "There is still a large uncovered gap and the recent price rises announced will not cover that," says Rajiv Kumar, director and chief executive of the New Delhi-based Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations...
...dramatically in recent years, while the nuclear workforce has aged and shrunk. Nuclear supporters like Moore who argue that atomic plants are much cheaper than renewables tend to forget the sky-high capital costs, not to mention the huge liability risk of an accident - the insurance industry won't cover a nuclear plant, so it's up to government to do so. Conservatives like Republican presidential candidate John McCain tend to promote nuclear power because they don't think carbon-free alternatives like wind or solar could be scaled up sufficiently to meet rising power demand, but McCain's idea...
...predominantly male. Despite his influence on the Rolling Stones and the Clash, Diddley was rarely credited as one of rock 'n' roll's creators--or paid like one--a fact, he admitted, that made him bitter. But his influence has been acknowledged by contemporary musicians, from the Raconteurs, who cover Who Do You Love, to Mos Def, who rapped, "Elvis Presley ain't got no soul/ Bo Diddley is rock 'n' roll...
...five defendants will be asked to enter pleas as part of the arraignment, which is showcasing the Bush Administration's plan to try some 70 of the 270 detainees at Guantanamo by military commission. Sixty print and television reporters were flown to Cuba on a military plane to cover Thursday's arraignment. Strict rules are in effect to protect classified information divulged in the new, $12 million courtroom equipped with multiple television cameras, some of which feed video to outside observers, while others monitor the defendants for security reasons. No one in the court is armed, but burly uniformed guards...