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...copy. Handwritten in Malay, the language of Thai Muslims, but using Arabic, not Roman, script, most of the pamphlet consists of repeated exhortations to the "Warriors of Martyrdom." A sample: "Sacrifice your flesh to the last drop of blood ... blood that will trickle down the warriors' bodies and flood the soil in red, reflecting a red radiance across the sky at dawn and dusk, the East and West calling on warriors to declare jihad." Also noteworthy is the paucity of references to the liberation of the south. Farish Noor, a Malaysian expert on Islam who recently spent several weeks...
...latest plague to beset Haiti, where tropical storm Jeanne left at least 1,500 dead and some 300,000 homeless, is hunger. Flood victims received free bags of water in Gonaïves, while elsewhere in this northern port city U.N. troops fired smoke grenades to protect food convoys that had come under attack. Meanwhile, the U.S. promised more than $2 million in disaster aid after being criticized for its initial pledge...
Genesis, a mission run by NASA'S Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., was launched in August 2001 to solve a cosmic conundrum. Although the sun and the flood of particles it radiates make up 99% of all the matter in the solar system, earthlings have never been able to grab hold of much of that so-called solar wind, beyond a tiny bit collected by several of the Apollo missions. Earth's magnetic field causes the stream of hydrogen, helium and other elements the sun gives off to flow around our world like river water around a rock...
...FLOOD INSURANCE Standard home-insurance policies don't cover flooding, but the federal government does through the National Flood Insurance Program. Coastal residents aren't the only property owners who may face floods. "In fact, 25% of all claims that are paid after a flood are in areas that are not designated high risk for flooding," says Jeanne Salvatore of the Insurance Information Institute...
...Australian invasion is in full flood, streaming through the ticket barriers and swarming into the stands. There are Chinese and Japanese nearby, discreetly waving their flags, but swamping them are green-and-gold boxing kangaroos, Australian flags and banners, and giant hands signaling "No. 1" in Australian colors...