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...military has long prepared to lay siege to Baghdad instead of plunging directly into the city and engaging in brutal door-to-door urban warfare. Allied commanders say they may cordon off the capital with a loose chain of troops, tanks and armored vehicles. U.S. troops may cut off the supply of water, food, electricity and communications--encouraging civilians to flee the city center and leaving Saddam's soldiers and perhaps even the Iraqi leader holed up. U.S. forces would then attack targets inside the city with air strikes, long-range weapons and surgical commando raids with...
...particular strain was more deadly than others?though scientists may be closing in on the answer?but we do know that it caused a global disaster. In Philadelphia, 7,500 people died of it in two weeks. The supply of coffins ran out; streetcars were used as hearses. Families lay dying in their homes, unable even to stir to feed themselves. Some lingered in delirium for weeks, coughing foamy, blood-tinged sputum, while others were dead within 24 hours...
...Malaysian special-forces soldier Captain Mat, who leads jungle and beach tours and prides himself on an encyclopedic knowledge of the region's flora and fauna. And from May to September, visitors can take a hotel van southward for an hour to see hawksbill turtles trundle on shore to lay their eggs. Thousands of massive leatherbacks used to haul themselves onto the beach right next to the Tanjong Jara to do the same. Sadly, mistreatment of the ancient creatures?by tourists, fishermen and egg hunters?has reduced landings from some 10,000 in the 1960s to zero last year...
...summer heat lay oppressively low on Shanghai, and Zheng Mingyi, 14, turned to the radio hoping for a diversion from the soaring mercury. What he heard that day changed his life and the lives of every citizen in the most populous nation on earth. In urgent tones, a news reader announced that Mao Zedong was exhorting citizens to rise up and "bombard the headquarters" to rid the party of his rivals and enemies. That day the Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, announced two months before, took hold...
...in” on Boston’s Boylston Street, hundreds of protesters lay down on the pavement to symbolize the victims...