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Last month United Airlines became the first U.S. carrier to offer nonstop service between Washington and Kuwait City. The airline says it's focusing on oil and gas companies that move employees back and forth. United predicts that a third of the plane will be full-fare business passengers, whose high-priced tickets will help subsidize the cheaper leisure fares. Kuwait is also a jumping-off point for U.S. military personnel and government workers going into war zones in Iraq and Afghanistan. And the route is sure to become a "war shuttle," filled with troops, Pentagon officials, contractors, journalists--even...
Rethinking History Iran calls Holocaust conference Holocaust skeptic and Iranian Prez Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has invited scholars from 30 nations to a conference this week in Tehran to debate issues like whether the Nazis used gas chambers...
...governments that work on this scale. And obscure poisons have long been a specialty of Russia's secret police, going back to a "toxicological office" that reported to Lenin personally. In the past, the Russians were known to have developed a gun delivering a burst of cyanide gas causing death easy to misidentify as a heart attack, and tiny pellets smeared with the poison ricin, which has no antidote...
...fire at the 17-story building at 1 Broadway in Kendall Square left one dead—Kevin Fidalgo, a 28-year-old employee of Massachusetts-based electric and gas utility NStar and UMass-Amherst footballer—800 evacuated, and at least 100 employees suffering from smoke inhalation. Fidalgo and a colleague were in the basement, working on a transformer when it exploded...
...realpolitik" eventually paid off - at least for the West - as the Soviet Union disappeared a few years later without a shot being fired. Today, "realpolitik" has given way to "realeconomics" - who cares if Moscow bumps off its citizens in Chechnya or elsewhere as long as the oil and natural gas are flowing from Russia? The West reacts most loudly when its investments in Russia are endangered...