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...only one Marine has been killed and several have been wounded. (In eastern Afghanistan, a U.S. soldier appears to have been captured by the Taliban in an event unrelated to the Helmand operation.) Casualty figures will probably rise, however, because the Taliban, having declined to go toe-to-toe with the Marines and instead having melted into the civilian population, will probably resort to asymmetrical warfare tactics like using improvised explosive devices (IEDs). On Saturday, an IED strike killed two U.S. troops in eastern Afghanistan, while another on Thursday killed two British troops elsewhere in Helmand. Stationing Marines among...
...candidate reaches the requirements needed to declare an immediate winner - a 50% national threshold and at least 20% in 17 of the country's 35 provinces. A delay in the elections is unlikely given the tens of millions of dollars that have been spent preparing for the event. Logistics in the sprawling archipelago are daunting, with some voters having to walk miles to reach the nearest polling station. (Watch a video about a destructive mud volcano in Indonesia...
...average, hurricanes in the U.S. have caused about $800 million in damage annually during El Niño years, half the damage caused during the reverse event, La Niña. (See pictures of Hurricane Ike sweeping across the Gulf...
...study published in the July 3 Science, El Niño is changing - and that could mean more hurricanes for the already battered western Atlantic coast. Climatologists led by Peter Webster at Georgia Tech found that in some El Niño years, the ocean warming associated with the event is moving thousands of miles west, to the center of the Pacific Ocean. Called El Niño Modoki (after the Japanese term meaning "similar, but different"), the new El Niño seems to shift Atlantic cyclones to the west, resulting in more frequent storms and more hurricanes making...
Either way, it's the Post's name that would have drawn prominent figures to the event. And it's the Post's name that has been besmirched by what was at best extremely poor party planning and at worst a breach of the line between the editorial and commercial imperatives of a newspaper...