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...Numbers 22 months Length of time the U.S. spent hunting for weapons of mass destruction (wmd) in Iraq...
...days after the tsunami, a Thai woman named Somsap Sukdi went to Phuket's provincial hall to pin up pictures of her missing German husband, Markus Knoesel. Now, carrying their 2-year-old son Jimmy in her arms, Somsap, tears streaming down her face, slowly walks the length of the notice board, removing those pictures. Knoesel's body was positively identified the previous day. "He's not missing anymore," she says softly, a widow at 30. --By Andrew Marshall/Phuket
...miles below the surface of the ocean, stresses that had been gradually accumulating forced the Burma plate to snap upward. That was a huge geological event, eventually measured at 9.0 on the Richter scale. The dislocation of the boundary between the Indian and Burma plates took place over a length of 745 miles and within three days had set off 68 aftershocks...
...seen proposal in the competition, an ensemble of five slightly inebriate towers. Some of them rise on the diagonal, and all of them eventually lean into one another and touch at their 60th floors. At that juncture they produce their most spectacular feature, a five-story corridor spanning the length of all five towers horizontally, making a fully enclosed loggia hundreds of feet long--a city street in midair...
...made sense. A bald, fat genius, a transplant from the Philippines, a chain-smoking matron and a stage magician have no right to write songs about Puerto Rico, the Old Testament and UFOs that are actually good, much less classics. They were far too improbable to exist for any length of time. The concert Thursday was a fair historical reconstruction of that period, and it would be too much to hope for the real thing...