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Strewn across the terraced slopes that climb the valley were torn strips of Arabic training manuals, bits of a Chinese-Arabic dictionary, some shreds of clothing, a set of parallel exercise bars and a shooting target printed by the National Rifle Association. Trees blown from the earth lay with their roots twisted into clumps like charred driftwood. Bomb craters 50 ft. across and 20 ft. deep were filled with rubble and crossbeams. That the caves still existed was a wonder. They had been bombarded for days. Yet clearly anybody who had taken refuge inside the caves would have survived...
Fate knocked at the door last week for Europe's two fascist dictators. Mussolini, shot in the back and through the head by his partisan executioners, lay dead in Milan. Adolf Hitler had been buried, dead or alive, in the rubble of his collapsing Third Reich...If he were indeed dead, the hope of most of mankind had been realized. For seldom had so many millions of people hoped so implacably for the death...
...cosmic moment in Ali, Michael Mann's sober and often stirring film biography, a perfect representation of the instinctive, almost visionary, shrewdness that lay beneath Ali's doggerel-spewing, hyperkinetic image. Bloodied and staggering under the blows of coarsely baying public opinion, he understood before most of us did that it was another kind of imagery--that selected by the media to symbolize the war to American civilians--that would determine the war's outcome and his own fate...
...commonplace that Europeans and Japanese enjoy better wireless service than Americans. But the U.S. lags behind even most developing countries in one respect: the growth of cell-phone subscriptions vs. that of hard lines. In developing countries, where it's usually easier to install wireless connections than to lay cables, the number of new cell-phone customers has been soaring for years. "They skipped a whole stage of evolution," says Michael Erbschloe of Computer Economics, a technology-research company in Carlsbad, Calif. That's good news for companies like Verizon, which is part-owned by Vodafone, the world's most...
...herders. And soon even those delights may be hard to find. Despite the grandeur of the desert landscape, it is impossible not to notice the growing environmental catastrophe. Countless hills and rangelands are giving way to erosion, as millions of sheep and goats eat the sparse vegetation and lay the ground bare. In the end, the region's very remoteness may be its downfall?so few people get there to revel in its unique beauty that few are protesting its passing...