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...members of media started referring to these plotters as the "real deal" plotters, presumably to distinguish them from whack jobs in Miami. These guys too, it turned out, hadn't done much more than talk in an Internet chat room about blowing something up. And their plan to flood downtown New York City with sea water from a demolished tunnel would have been complicated a bit by the fact that, unlike New Orleans, Manhattan is well above sea level...
...time of day. A trip to Wandie's bar in Soweto[an error occurred while processing this directive] may be a bit of a cliché, but it's still a must to sample township life. And then I'd end my night at the Horror Café in downtown Johannesburg, where some of the best undiscovered musicians play local hip-hop, ragga and soul. It's a young, mixed crowd - very cool. Palesa Madumo, advertising executive First hit the Design Quarter, Jo'burg's newest and hippest shopping mall at Fourways in the north. You can eat or have...
...Monday, barely past 1 p.m., Valencia's Line 1 subway train derailed right under the city's downtown, crashed against the inside walls, and slid outside the tracks for 100 meters before coming to a deadly halt. Inside, 41 people lay dead. According to the train's black box, the convoy entered the curve that leads to the Jesus station at 80 km/h, double the speed limit. The regional transportation minister, Jos? Ram?n Garc?a Ant?n said that "the machinist must have suffered some sort of unconsciousness or problem," adhering to the official line that only human factor was to blame...
...office. While many of the officials who serve under him build Caspian Sea villas and travel in caravans of shiny new SUVs, Ayatullah Ali Khamenei, the country's supreme religious leader, conducts himself with the modesty of a small-town mullah. He receives visitors in spare, undecorated offices in downtown Tehran and often runs meetings seated on the floor and wearing a plain black robe. Billboards with his portrait are ubiquitous in the capital, depicting Khamenei more as a rumpled civil servant than a revolutionary, with thick glasses and rough, checkered scarf. "When you talk to him, you feel...
...trend has been especially hard on Central City, the working-class neighborhood sandwiched between New Orleans' downtown core and the historic Garden District. The neighborhood was dark for months after Katrina, but residents began returning in large numbers this spring, some to repair damaged homes and a dangerous few, law enforcement officials say, to stake out territory in the city's gang wars...