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...demand his attention. Though Thai authorities have imposed martial law in the south, pledged hundreds of millions of dollars in development aid, and tried to involve local communities in decision making, the area is still not fully under control. And in an economy where tourism remains an important driver, the prospect of unrest and the presence of Islamic militants are hardly happy ones...
...knives. Ustaz Soh was very angry with me, and three weeks later he came back and ordered me to attack on my own. He said the leaders had decided that attacks would now use guns and bombs, and gave me a 9-mm pistol. When I asked for a driver, he told me a boy from my own village would drive the motorcycle, the first time I knew that he was part of the organization too." Having studied his target's movements for a week, Abdullah says he rode up behind two soldiers on a motorbike and shot the pillion...
DIED. JOHN E. MACK, 74, controversial Pulitzer prize-winning psychiatrist; after being hit by a drunk driver; in London. Mack, a Harvard Medical School professor, was best known for his studies of people who claimed to have had alien encounters. His 1994 book on the subject, which concluded that "the abduction phenomenon has important philosophical, spiritual and social implications," caused Harvard to consider censure, but a committee later "reaffirmed Dr. Mack's academic freedom...
...near miss, but his American guardians insisted on returning to Kabul. Half-jokingly, Karzai said, "I'm an Afghan, and I promise I'll take my revenge." Sure enough, the next day, Karzai slipped past his American protectors and, with two baffled Afghan bodyguards in tow, commandeered a driver to take him to a Kabul bazaar. The President wanted to buy a pomegranate...
...hurt to have a second pair of eyes. Volvo plans to introduce a blind-spot warning system, which sees where you can't, for most of its 2006 models, out next year. A digital camera under the driver's side-view mirror watches for oncoming vehicles and triggers a flashing light as a vehicle approaches. For lane drifters (you know who you are), Infiniti is debuting a lane-departure warning system in its 2005 FX SUVs and 2006 M sedans. A camera on the rearview mirror recognizes lane markers and triggers an alert when you get offtrack...