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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...French love their trains, but these days they're boarding them warily. Last week their government confirmed that its security forces have for the past three months played a cat-and-mouse game with a group that calls itself AZF. The hitherto unknown group has threatened to bomb France's railroads unless the government forks over a hefty ransom...
...this apparent cynicism, online social networks prove endlessly fascinating as long as I continue to subconsciously sort everyone I know into neat little categories. Lest we forget, Harvard’s particular manifestation has also brought hitherto top-secret stalking techniques to the masses—finding out where someone last logged on has become a particularly valuable service with Telnet’s popular “finger” function on the fritz of late. While thefacebook.com isn’t explicitly about bringing people together in romantic unions, there are plenty of other primal instincts evident...
...advance the cause of peace in the Middle East, four Israeli and four Palestinian climbers--including former combatants in the fighting--scaled a hitherto unconquered mountain in remote Antarctica last week and raised their flags on its summit. The Israeli-born businessman behind the plan, HESKEL NATHANIEL, then read a proclamation calling for an end to violence and dubbed the peak the Mountain of Israeli-Palestinian Peace...
...items were displayed last year, in hopes that retailers would place big orders and the public would go out and buy them. In the packed and cacophonous LitAg - short for Literary Agents and Scouts Center - business deals worth €31 million concerning an amazing 18,000 hitherto unpublished print and electronic books in 53 languages were closed last year, as young, would-be authors, their manuscripts clutched in sweaty hands, prowled the corridors in search of a publisher. For leisure-time visitors who haven't come to bargain but simply to enjoy themselves, there are thousands of events to choose...
...Iraq in which international civil servants are murdered is not a success--which added to the urgency of finding out who was responsible for the Baghdad bomb. A hitherto unknown body called the Armed Vanguard of Muhammad's Second Army claimed responsibility, but it was simply impossible to know if the group even existed, let alone whether it had carried out the attack. In the days following the explosion, everyone from top Administration officials to Pentagon brass to the cottage industry of experts on terrorism to coffeehouse and bazaar gossips in Baghdad itself offered opinions on the perpetrators...