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...tragedy. Separatist sentiment is building in the seaside towns, the jungle up-country and rice-growing villages. In reaction, the military has revived its time-honored strategy of slash and burn. On the wall of a torched house in Rantau Pangang, a riverine settlement on the main north-south highway, is a date daubed in paint: 25/3/2001. That was the day police and army units arrived in trucks to shoot six villagers, apparently randomly, and burn down most of the village. "There was no reason for any of this," mutters Yusman, a grizzled shopkeeper, who was still sifting through rubble...
...caribou herd, which migrates to the coastal plain in the summer. Many do not realize, though, that the herd not only travels past 89 dry oil wells drilled by the Canadian government when it travels from Canada to ANWR, but that is also crosses Canada’s Dempster Highway en route. Neither of these factors have shown to hinder the species’ migration or survival...
...have helped with Markovic's arrest, since both appear to have been involved in different capacities in an assassination attempt on opposition leader Vuk Draskovic in 1999. Police are attempting to document who ordered that hit - in which a truck slammed into Draskovic's convoy on a Serbian highway, killing four in his entourage - as well as several other notable assassinations which occurred during the panicky last months of the regime. Milosevic's role in those killings has long been suspected but never confirmed. If convicted on those more serious charges Milosevic and others could face the death penalty, though...
...preparation of land in Allston for use by the University will include purchasing easement rights from current owners, environmental cleanup of land formerly under industrial use, moving current tenants and highway onramps, and beginning a long-term planning process for the land, according to Professor of Government Gary L. King, who presented the report of the Resource Committee at yesterday's Faculty meeting...
...attack. The IDF termed the closure a success and it was lifted. The following day a Palestinian walked out of Bethlehem down to the road from Jerusalem and riddled an oncoming car with bullets, killing its driver, and two bombs were discovered and dismantled on a civilian highway. Can we really consider a call for more attention to Palestinian suffering if the media ignores the reasons that make it necessary...