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Each night the man and the boy sat hunched over the same table, playing chess in Stuart's Coffee House in the seaside town of Bellingham, Wash. sometimes they would play until midnight. The man, John Allen Muhammad, 41, did what little talking had to be done. The boy, 17-year-old Lee Malvo, listened. Whenever cafe employees intruded with small talk, he would glance to Muhammad, as if for permission, before answering. They drank only plain coffee, as the college students and patrons around them indulged in smoothies and tarts and poetry readings. And each game ended the same...
...gruesome set of options that Dr. Nguyen Duy Tuyen has to explain three or four times a night. By midnight his E. R. fills up with scores of patients suffering from broken wrists, mangled legs and head injuries incurred in motorcycle accidents. "Every year gets worse than the last," Tuyen says. Vietnam's highways now claim 1,000 lives a month, double the rate of just five years ago. It's part of the price of modernization as a newly-moneyed citizenry moves up to motorized transportation. But there's a strange twist to this familiar developing country saga...
...municipal electrician even though the man had permission to move about during the curfew. Shots echo up the mountainside at midday. In Tibon's command center, radios crackle with reports that two border policemen have been hit after their jeep broke down near the Casbah. It'll be past midnight when Tibon visits the scene; right now he must coordinate the evacuation of the two men, who have leg wounds. But he can't disguise his annoyance that the jeep was alone at such an obviously dangerous flashpoint in the first place, and he issues firm orders to border police...
...Previously, we sent stories and scores to a third party who posted the information as he was able,” Veneziano said. “But it wasn’t fair—and wasn’t practical—to ask someone to wait until midnight on a Friday or Saturday night to get a story so it could be posted on the site...
Long considered Indonesia's safe haven, Bali has always been the country's premier tourist destination-a world apart from the spells of violence that plague the surrounding islands. The explosions that rocked the Hindu island moments before midnight Saturday did more than kill dozens and injure scores of innocent barhoppers, tourists and natives-they serve as a reminder that terrorists are not only present but active throughout the country. The two bombs-one placed on Kuta's busiest nightlife thoroughfare and the other in Denpasar near the U.S. consulate-seemed targeted at foreigners...