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...PLUMES OF STEAM SHOT OUT OF ITS horseshoe-shaped crater last week, Mount St. Helens seemed on the verge of a spectacular eruption. And this time the whole world was watching--hundreds through binoculars at safe vantage points, millions more through hourly reports on cable TV. But no one was watching more closely than the scientists monitoring the instruments scattered across the mountain's ash-coated flanks and half-mile-wide lava dome. This early warning network was installed after the 1980 eruption that blew off the top 1,300 ft. of the mountain, destroying tens of thousands of acres...
...only they were. The impassioned disputes that erupt at the mere mention of Osama bin Laden, the disturbingly jaded views of American motivations held by our supposed allies among the Afghans and the palpable danger of an arms dealer’s shed after dark are all powerfully unsettling. The inability to determine the loyalties of men standing on barren hillsides with rifles is eerily evocative of the American predicament in Vietnam. Watching the crew careen through Kabul amid real machine gun fire at least equals, and perhaps eclipses, the thrill of elaborately staged action...
...fervent followers willing to take up arms anytime at his order, and his strident defiance of the U.S. has won him an even greater number of noncombat supporters. Even an inconclusive truce boosts his stature: as long as the militant cleric gets away to fight another day, rebellion could erupt again...
...bomber intercepted a convoy of security personnel for General Electric in the heart of Baghdad on June 14 Zarqawi's information unit was there, ready and waiting. The three-vehicle convoy enters the screen and is followed down a crowded little street. As the lens zooms in the vehicles erupt in a blistering ball of flame. Three bystanders are seen turning their backs from the blast, attempting to cover their heads. In contrast to other videos of insurgent attacks, the cameraman does not flee. Instead he holds his position and zooms in on the burning suicide vehicle and the flaming...
Relations between Republicans and Democrats in Congress have rarely been worse. But leaders in both parties hope an even bigger fight won't erupt after a Democratic Congressman last week lodged a complaint with the House Ethics Committee against majority leader Tom DeLay. Texas Representative Chris Bell--who lost his seat in a primary last March in a district that had been redrawn by a Republican redistricting plan DeLay helped engineer--charges that one of DeLay's political-action committees illegally funneled corporate money into the 2002 Texas state house races, an allegation that an Austin grand jury is investigating...