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...levels were high enough in Spice that the fire department evacuated the restaurant for roughly 45 minutes, herding employees into the nearby Fleet Bank ATM to keep them warm in yesterday's frigid weather...
...finally, an actual concert by a big name! Tickets for the Dave Matthews Band (right) concert at the Fleet Center Dec. 11 go on sale at 11 a.m. tomorrow...
...their lives to pull bodies, and less than that, from the sunken sub. The last thing he wanted was a note with a voice literally from the dead telling Russians that the government had misled them from the beginning. The cover-up story from the Kremlin and the Northern Fleet was that the crew had died instantly, but this note shows that we still don't know how long the last crew member survived after the Kursk went down. It's obviously significant that 23 members of the crew of 118 survived the initial accident. So for Putin...
...women aboard the U.S.S. Cole had been at sea for two uneventful months when their vessel arrived in the Yemen harbor of Aden last Thursday. Unrest in the region and the Cole's upcoming six-month mission with the Navy's Fifth Fleet in the Persian Gulf, where it would enforce the international oil embargo against Iraq, had upgraded the ship's Threatcon to "bravo," the Navy's second-highest state of alert. So as the Cole steamed into Aden harbor just before noon, maneuvering close to an offshore mooring station where it would refuel, crew members were on deck...
...fact is, Pentagon brass have received warnings about the vulnerability of Fifth Fleet warships since at least 1996, following the Khobar Towers bombing in Saudi Arabia. More damaging fallout may emerge from probes into why the Cole was refueling in Aden in the first place. An Administration official said the U.S. was aware of "a general uptick in activity" in the past month among rogue groups hoping to use Arab-Israeli tensions as a justification for mischief. Yemen is a fertile staging ground for such mischief; the country is one of the world's poorest, and the government wields little...