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...mundane (and easier) is planned. The FBI has focused increasingly on trucks as vehicles for terrorism. Al-Qaeda operatives used trucks in the Kenya and Tanzania attacks. And U.S. roads are jammed with bombs on wheels--30,000 vehicles that transport poisonous gas, toxic liquids, petroleum products and explosives. Drivers of rigs hauling dangerous loads must have both a commercial driver's license and a hazardous-material (haz-mat) endorsement from a state, but those credentials are no more difficult to acquire than a pilot's license...
...past two years. Each student paid cash for the program--and none sought job placement afterward. Because none of the students spoke English, they were accompanied by an interpreter, the same person for each group. Even though English proficiency is a license requirement, all the Arab students received driver's licenses, trucking sources say. (It's not clear how they passed the written test, which is in English.) Charlie Tweedy, the owner of Careers Worldwide, a truck-driving school in Denver, told TIME that FBI agents have examined his files and interviewed his employees. But he denied that his company...
...northern border through the heart of the Hindu Kush, crossing the 13,000-ft. Anjuman Pass into the Panjshir Valley. It's a grueling three-or four-day journey--for those vehicles that make it. "This road wasn't built for human beings," says Mohammed Zikria, 25, a Panjshiri driver who nearly died last week when his jeep stalled and almost slid backward over a precipice into a foaming mountain river. "It's a road from hell...
...northern border through the heart of the Hindu Kush, crossing the 13,000-ft. Anjuman Pass into the Panjshir Valley. It's a grueling three- or four-day journey?for those vehicles that make it. "This road wasn't built for human beings," says Mohammed Zikria, 25, a Panjshiri driver who nearly died last week when his jeep stalled and almost slid backward over a precipice into a foaming mountain river. "It's a road from hell...
...gushed over the story of giant wolves and boars and a girl raised among them who battle humans threatening the wilderness. But it alarmed and baffled parents who with their tots make up most of the U.S. animation audience. Despite voice-overs by the likes of Claire Danes, Minnie Driver and Billy Crudup and the marketing might of Miramax, a unit of Disney, it earned $3.5 million in the U.S., compared with the record-smashing $150 million it made in Japan. "Disney didn't take into account that Miyazaki didn't become a giant in Japan overnight," says Helen McCarthy...