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...cold water, city-style plumbing, cocktail lounges, automatic laundries, hairdressers, TV and enough electric power to light the city of Boise. Michigan authorities have already approved installation of additional electrical facilities to handle the increased load of electric frying pans and blankets, but Wisconsin has called a halt. Says Forest and Parks Superintendent Roman Koenings: "We have had requests to provide sewer hookup facilities for some campers, but we're not going to comply. We've gone as far as we're going...
Nine months later, the investigation into the attack in Yemen has ground to a halt. The bureau and the Yemenis have tried and failed to bridge the cultural chasm between them, haggling over investigative methods and security. The FBI and the U.S. State Department began a bitter feud over dealing with the Yemenis, leading to an open rupture between the agency's chief investigator and the U.S. ambassador there. The upshot, U.S. officials say, is that the FBI still cannot prove what it believes: that the notorious Osama bin Laden and his al Qaeda terrorist network are behind the attack...
...quick progress in their specialty--arrests. "They arrested everybody they could find with a beard," says a Yemeni official. Now Yemeni sources have told TIME that the Yemeni Attorney General's office could soon bring the suspects it has in custody to trial and put a unilateral and formal halt to what was once a joint Yemeni-FBI investigation. Likely convictions would quickly result in death for the suspects...
...burn a complete CD. My Roxio-made discs inevitably gave up and ejected themselves around track 12 or so, claiming lack of memory. After I spent several hours on the phone with them, Roxio's tech support sent me some updated software. Even that did not halt the alarming proliferation of coasters...
...with Democrats in a packed basement room off the House chamber, waving a news story reporting that the National Republican Congressional Committee had raked in $39 million the first six months of this year, twice what its Democratic counterpart collected. Republicans are winning the money chase and unless Democrats halt it with campaign reforms, "we're going to loose" seats in the House Gephardt agrued. "That's the bottom line...