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...more damaging. Unlike Davis’s warning, which could be heeded by avoiding major bridges (although few people actually did so), the Bush administration’s warnings are difficult to act upon. They have been met not by increased caution (how can you be on more than maximum alert?) but by increased xenophobia...
...anti-Taliban storm has left the country in a state of "maximum turmoil," as military strategists call it--the ideal environment for American forces to put bin Laden on the run. A huge, nagging fear was that bin Laden would disappear inside Afghanistan, dug in so deep that he could lead the U.S. forces on a long, futile chase. But allied officials exuded more confidence than ever before that they knew where...
...pretty logical, really. Incoming freshmen and transfer students are given email addresses based on a computer algorithm that allows a maximum of eight characters per address. If a students last name is unique, he gets up to eight of its letters for an address. When duplicates arise, the first letter of the first name, and sometimes the middle intial, is put in front. If even that doesnt work, numbers are added to the end. Heres where Harvard gets aesthetic on us: if the eighth letter of the students last name is a vowel, the last letter gets...
...dangerous beasties. "But when you're actually on the road, it's just a way of life, like a gypsy, I suppose." She gets to her home in Bournemouth "three days in between trips here, and four days there, and occasionally as long as three weeks. That's maximum." Her other home is in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, but that one is filled with students. When she visits her beloved Gombe National Park, where her chimps live, she is usually accompanied by one film crew or another. She spends most of her time in the U.S. and Canada but also...
...going to be a first for all these commanders," says a Western military specialist. "And it's not at all clear how they'll do." The Alliance forces stationed north of Kabul possess 100 tanks and other armored vehicles, but they may not be deployed in ways that inflict maximum damage. Afghans tend to split their armor into small portions to use as mobile artillery or infantry support. But, says a Western analyst, "that's not how you break lines and sow confusion in the enemy's rear...