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...Neves Ferreira, 6, had ever seen. Her father, a junk dealer in the Brazilian city of Goiania, discovered the mysterious substance when he pried open a heavy lead casing that a scavenger had sold him. Leide rubbed the powder on her body so that she glowed and sparkled. Dust fell on the sandwich she was eating. Leide, her father and the scrap collector were in critical condition at a Rio de Janeiro hospital last week, not expected to survive...The ten Goiania victims in most serious condition, including Leide, were flown to a naval hospital in Rio de Janeiro. There...
...DUST PROBE: The FBI gave the detainee Zacarias Moussaoui a test for the anthrax vaccine. Result: negative. A would-be pilot, he was arrested last August with literature on crop dusters in his possession. He is being held as a material witness in the Sept. 11 case. TOWERING TARGETS: In 1999, Spanish police intercepted a van with more than a ton of explosives. Last week a captured Basque separatist said the target had been Madrid's 48-story Picasso Towers, designed by the World Trade Center architect...
...their targets 70 percent of the time. Maybe this time around we are using a few more smart bombs for every dumb bomb, and maybe the dumb bombs have gotten smarter (more accurate). Of course, the Pentagon will not release these figures until the war is over and the dust has cleared—when it is too late for the American public to complain...
...Taliban prisoners, he claims, will be tried and eventually expelled, although he does not rule out the possibility of executions. In this desolate battle-scarred landscape of dust and desert, barren mountain peaks and rusted, blown out Soviet tanks, killing is given little thought. "Maybe we will have to execute a few people," says Atta. "The people want to kill these tourists...
...time she had passed the turnip and tomato stalls of Yang-e-Qale town, a crowd of jeering men had formed. It was a woman who delivered the first blow, then the men joined in, pelting her with stones. Children finished the job by kicking up swirls of yellow dust, as she lay on the ground shielding her exposed face...