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...Goodall says the ideal habitats are animal sanctuaries - nature reserves that take in abandoned, orphaned or freed animals that cannot be reintroduced into the wild. And she's impressed by the love and care they're given at the two sanctuaries operated by Bolivian nonprofit Inti Wara Yassi, where hundreds of monkeys and birds and more than two dozen pumas, jaguars and ocelots live in large cages set in lush jungle. They are played with or taken out for walks every day. "Before [this reserve was created] these animals were as good as dead. Now they have the option...
...suicide-bombing of a military convoy near the Swat Valley in which 41 perished. But it was the Oct. 10 assault on the heavily guarded army headquarters in Rawalpindi that left Pakistanis shaken. Militants occupied the building--the equivalent of the U.S. Pentagon--for 22 hours before commandos freed 39 hostages, capturing one perpetrator and killing nine others. Analysts called the attack "unprecedented...
There are indeed dangerous wild dogs in Kabul. This is one reason why the dogs serving at the Mine Dog Center are killed by injection when they complete their service at seven or eight years old, rather than freed into a realm of feral creatures and dog-hating locals. Another reason is that the dogs, even if they found homes, could lead likely Afghan owners into danger, even in retirement, because the German Shepherds would continue to search out ordnance. Explains Mohammed Nabi, 48, rangy and black bearded, "the trainers make the dogs acquainted with explosives from the very beginning...
...forcibly stop this little kid I didn’t know, and I still half thought that he was faking. Some gasping syllable came out of my mouth just as I felt a tug on the still-connected headphones around my neck, and the release as momentum freed the iPod. It hit a metal trash can straight on, then skidded off into the street making with a sound like a row of people dropping their cell phones one after the other. None of this happened in slo-motion...
...dawn rose over the 100-year-old British-built army garrison, an élite unit of commandos surrounded the small room where the hostages were being held. At 6 a.m., they launched a 45-minute operation that saw fierce cross fire. Three of the hostages died, but 30 were freed. Two commandos were killed, and three others sustained critical injuries to which they later succumbed...