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...hush-hush meeting on July 1, a 1-hr. 45-min. session at former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's Georgetown house, to which Kerry had summoned Edwards from a Disney World vacation with his family. But Edwards didn't get the call until early Tuesday morning--almost 14 hours after Kerry had called a plane-decal company and asked it to add Edwards' name to the side of his Boeing 757. The offer made and accepted, Kerry told Edwards: "There will be a team at your house within an hour...
...known to reporters in Kabul. Given to explosive bursts of rage and camouflage uniforms, he stalked Kabul's few bars and foreign TV-news bureaus, punctuating his stories of chasing al-Qaeda with a flourish of his pistol. At least once he came up with the goods: a seven-hour al-Qaeda training video, parts of which aired in January 2002 on CBS's 60 Minutes. He hinted that he was working undercover for U.S. special forces and as a "special adviser" for Afghan authorities. But he was one of many shadowy, ex--special-operations types drawn to Afghanistan...
Last Monday morning - a scorcher in Greece - was a bad day at the Lavrion power station. First, a valve linked to unit 2 of the plant, 80 km southeast of Athens, was found to be leaking. Technicians repaired it within a few hours, but then found that one of three transmission pipes feeding water into the station's boilers was steaming up and ready to burst. Its automatic shutdown system kicked in, causing all four units of the power station to halt. That took about 1,200 MW from the country's grid and brought electrical reserves to a dangerously...
...rescue the tradition, the regional government in 2000 made learning the Silbo compulsory, and today Darias teaches it to the 164 students at Lomada School. He coordinates the work of two Silbo teachers to cover the island's 14 other schools. Students aged 7 to 14 do half an hour of whistling a week; those under 7 do 15 minutes to acquaint them with the technique. The Silbo employs ch, y, g and k sounds, plus the vowels a and i. "The sounds are approximate to spoken Spanish," says Darias. "Some words, such as catarro [a cold] and cacharro...
...southern state of Tamil Nadu, including the owner of a private school, on suspicion of negligence after at least 88 children died and dozens more suffered serious burns in a fire that gutted the school building. A Striking Difference PERU Labor unions claimed wide support for a 24-hour national strike to protest President Alejandro Toledo's free-market economic policies, while the government said that most employees had reported for work. Opinion polls show Toledo 's approval rating at less than 10%. MEANWHILE IN GERMANY ... Get Your Kit Off Two female Green Party politicians wrote to the German Football...