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Clarity was not forthcoming. Flight 223 would be canceled the next day and the day after that. A U.S. official told TIME that intelligence suggested terrorists may have wanted to blow up Flight 223 or crash it into a building in Washington. More than a dozen other flights to or from Paris, London, Los Angeles, Washington, Riyadh and Mexico City were scrapped in a week and a half, starting on Christmas Eve. It was a strange period of aviation lottery that may become more commonplace as authorities continue to hunt, with imperfect information, for would-be al-Qaeda hijackers...
...packed vehicles in advance at separate gas stations on Jhanda Chichi Road in Rawalpindi. As the convoy carrying Pakistani leader Pervez Musharraf approached, the suicide drivers sped into action. A guard stepped into the path of one vehicle, costing him his life and causing the assassin's van to crash into a car in the motorcade and instantly explode; within a minute, the other vehicle blew up just yards from Musharraf's armored Mercedes, shattering its windshield. In all, 16 people were killed, including the bombers, security guards and bystanders. The President was unhurt in the Christmas Day attack...
Kerry mixes his populist assault with policy solutions that are more detailed and attractive than Dean's. The Senator was the first Democrat to propose a crash energy-independence program, not just to free the U.S. from its dependence on foreign oil but also to develop new environmental technologies that could replace dwindling manufacturing jobs. All the Democrats now have similar plans, but Kerry pushes his more assiduously than the others do--and he offers it as an implicit alternative to the harsh protectionism (and thus higher prices) pushed by Dean and Gephardt...
...chicken pox, gradually become endemic to man, eventually resulting, if we are lucky, in nothing more than a mild childhood illness. Others, such as Ebola, retreat back to whatever animal reservoir they came from, stalking humanity from their hidden lair, only occasionally lashing out to bloody a village or crash a rural hospital. But diseases don't, as a rule, just go away...
...month. "The Turks will have to appear realistic, and reasonable to the world this time around," says Turkish Cypriot commentator Metin Munir. "There is not much room, or time, left to maneuver." No Foul Play EGYPT Egyptian and French officials ruled out terrorism as the cause of a plane crash early Saturday that killed all 148 passengers and crew, blaming a technical fault. The Boeing 737 belonging to Egyptian charter company Flash Airlines was carrying mostly French tourists returning to Paris . It plunged into the Red Sea shortly after takeoff. French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said France would...