Word: derailings
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...really afraid that the train might derail,” said Lin, who will be traveling home to New Jersey...
...attack similar to one foiled in Strasbourg last year; rather than spook people with armed police in riot gear, officials in Cologne decided to train plainclothesmen to guard the city's famous holiday market. Officials were especially jittery at the NATO summit in Prague, after two attempts to derail commuter trains ahead of the meeting. The unknown saboteurs were amateurish - they parked a car on the tracks in one instance and planted a homemade bomb in the other - but just to be safe, the government slapped a 30-km/h speed limit on trains in the capital. Intelligence experts elsewhere worried...
Injuries, though, are one thing that could derail the Crimson before it even gets started. Lacking the plethora of players competing for positions at the bottom of the lineup it has enjoyed in the past, Harvard could struggle if players are forced to miss matches. The Crimson’s vulnerability was only exacerbated by Ryan Abraham’s decision to take a year off after his rookie campaign, although sophomore Gaurav Yadav’s return from his own year away could help Harvard compensate...
...vulnerability of the nation's rail system to terror attack. But the threat was deemed immediate enough late last week for the agency to issue a formal warning. The alert cautioned that al-Qaeda, "possibly using operatives who have a Western appearance," might try to destroy key rail bridges, derail trains or target hazardous-material containers. What prompted the unusually specific warning? Intelligence sources tell TIME it came as a result of the attack by two gunmen who killed one U.S. Marine and wounded another on a Kuwaiti island on Oct. 8. Kuwaiti authorities who afterward raided an al-Qaeda...
...likely see them shake hands and slap backs and hear renewed admiration for the other's resolve and grit. But behind the scenes, there's good reason to believe that Bush will attempt to strike a hard bargain with Sharon - before the Israeli Prime Minister's policies derail the Administration's effort to build support for a war against Iraq...