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AFGHANISTAN Deadly Confusion As the U.S. began inquiries into accidental civilian deaths and allegations of mishandling prisoners, Kandahar airport again came under fire. Two U.S. soldiers were slightly wounded and an ammunition depot was set ablaze in the attack, which underscored continuing security problems even after the three-month bombing campaign against al-Qaeda targets...
HPPS Production Coordinator Kenton W. Doyle said he thinks the website has led to smaller lines at the HPPS Science Center depot...
NIGERIA Fire and Fury in Lagos Mystery and anger surround explosions at a military barracks and arms depot in Lagos, in which more than 1,000 people were killed. Nearly 500 others - mostly children - are unaccounted for. The blasts, in the residential district of Ikeja, lasted for hours, propelling shells and burning debris for miles around and sending thousands fleeing for their lives. In the stampede, hundreds of terrified people drowned in two canals. As the army and both houses of Nigeria?s legislature began inquiries into the disaster, anger rose over the government?s past failure to move...
...horses, with entrails spilling, added a thick stench to the smoke and gunpowder. All the dead were described by the Alliance as "terrorists" and "dangerous foreigners." "I killed four Chechens, four," said Mohammed Yasin excitedly. "I can show you the bodies." The occasional explosion from the smoldering arms depot sent Alliance men scampering across the field, hurdling bodies as they ran for cover...
...hour help desk so that crew members can update translated newsletters during a cruise--alerting, say, Japanese passengers to a dance-class schedule change. And converting things as prosaic as store signs and training materials is now part of Translations.com's business for Home Depot. Before consolidating the work with Translations.com Home Depot outsourced jobs to several vendors--a system that became increasingly inefficient as the firm expanded in Latin America and its translation needs expanded to 2 million words a year. "By centralizing with one company, we reduced the price per word 30% to 40%," says Rob Hallam...