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...reminder that some people still do this?and that heating our houses and charging our iPods depends on it???is even more arresting now that such tragedies have become rarer. Particularly when so many Americans work in sterile, comfortable, safe environments, attention must be paid to those who don't. As the son of one dead miner told the New York Times, "He gave his life in there so I could go to the movies...
...troops call it??Route Barracuda, a patch of terrorist territory in the northern Iraqi town of Tall 'Afar, where thousands of U.S. and Iraqi forces have converged for the biggest battle in nearly a year. On this sweaty September afternoon, the neighborhood is living up to its name. A squad of U.S. commandos enters an abandoned house and clambers up to the roof. The 2-foot lip doesn't give much cover from the bullets raining down on them from insurgent gunmen firing from a building 200 yards to the north. Rounds flying at supersonic speed crack inches from...
...spacecraft first detects the comet when it???s still 60 days away. The ship begins refining its aim, studying the comet?s rotation and ambient dust...
...week's end Mississippi officials refused to charge anyone with murder. FBI charges will be heard in a federal court in Meridian. There can be no change of venue unless the defense asks for it???which will not happen. Thus the 21 will be judged by a jury of their Mississippi peers, and Mississippi juries are not noted for convicting people accused of civil rights crimes...
...It??may sound quite sensible to require Americans to show a photo ID before stepping into a voting booth. But as a growing number of states push to require such IDs, the move is drawing opposition from critics who see it as an effort to disenfranchise the poorest--and presumably most Democratic--voters. Five states today require a photo ID at the polls (Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana, South Carolina and South Dakota), and seven more have considered such a requirement this year. In the past two weeks alone, photo-ID bills have been signed into law in Georgia and Indiana; killed...