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This outfit has developed a sort of cross-cultural exchange program with the nomadic Masai in East Africa whereby the Africans receive direct benefits from tourism and guests are exposed to the tribe's culture...
...Madrid and Baghdad were hit by radical Islamic terrorists--Londoners had recognized that sooner or later, the bombers would get around to them too. "I don't feel angry," said research student Kevin Benish, 21, as he placed a bunch of lilies on a makeshift shrine outside King's Cross station the next day. "I knew it wasn't a question of if but when something like this would happen...
Then the lights went out. On Thursday morning, Chris Lowry, 17, a lawyer's clerk, was sitting on a Piccadilly Line train outside King's Cross when "a fat blast came from the front end. I actually think I fell out of my seat at first--all I could see was smoke." Eventually, emergency workers moved passengers to the back of the train and up into the station, where Lowry remembers "trails of blood going up the stairways." Nicolas Thioulouse, 27, a French architect, was in a train under Edgware Road station when a bomb exploded on a train...
...Edgware Road--were in trains just below the surface, on so-called "cut and cover" lines, so the force of the blast was dissipated into a relatively wide tunnel. Seven people died at Edgware Road and seven at Aldgate. But the bomb on the Piccadilly Line near King's Cross was in one of the Underground's deep tubes, some 100 ft. below the surface. There the blast had nowhere to go, and emergency workers said the scene was hellish. Twenty-one people are known to have died on the train, although as the rescuers searched for more bodies...
...that we don?t have to endure the breakdowns and delays of its overburdened public transport system. On Thursday, that advantage almost became shocking neglect. My journey from Hackney in the north to the center of town yesterday passed, as usual, within a few streets of King?s Cross and Russell Square stations, just minutes after bombs were going off in the tunnels far below. This morning, there was no escaping the memory, yet the mood on the street is different, subtly changed. The queues at bus stops were long but no one was jostling and shoving, cars stopped...