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...What do you expect them to do - fall on the ground and grovel?' ALEXANDER DOWNER, Australian Foreign Minister, rejecting requests that police and prosecutors apologize for detaining Indian doctor Mohamed Haneef on suspicion of his involvement in June's U.K. terror plots. All charges against Haneef were dropped on July...
...November, they will be. A project staff of about 30 will use a recently installed CP2 Doppler radar to analyze what's happening in Queensland's clouds before, during and after materials like silver iodide and salt are sprayed into them from planes. Working in tandem with other ground radars and forecasting equipment, the technology will be able to do a three-dimensional reading of the atmosphere - similar to a body scan. Not only will this mean better information about when conditions are right to send the seeding planes, but it will enable scientists to "watch" how the water...
Another summer, another headache for British Airways. Staff shortages forced the carrier to ground flights in mid-2004, a strike a year later cost the airline millions in lost revenues, and last August's terrorist alert brought security gridlock to its Heathrow hub. The sting this season: huge fines for anti-competitive behavior...
...says Lt. Col. Durr. "We both have been in Army National Reserves [since] my kids were born," he says of himself and his wife, Heather. "[My kids] are used to mom and dad not being around sometimes." In the aftermath of 9/11, for example, Durr spent four months at Ground Zero in New York City...
...British soldiers there have moved from combat to "over-watch" of Iraqi forces in three of four provinces in the south of Iraq. The decision to change posture in the fourth area, Basra province, said Brown, "will be made on military advice of commanders on the ground...