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Those figures do not include the cost of just physically moving the schools, their offices, administration and libraries a mile across the Charles River...
...after the first incident, two more Chinooks set off from Bagram on a dual mission: to rescue Roberts and to insert more troops at Ginger. One of the choppers took heavy machine-gun fire. It shuddered and spiraled toward the ground but managed to crash-land less than a mile from the place the first pair had come under attack. As the troops clambered out of the wrecked MH-47, they were ambushed. Hagenbeck ordered AC-130 gunships to the battle to provide close air support, but the al-Qaeda barrage was so intense that U.S. troops couldn...
...program. In addition, any medals won by disabled athletes will count toward their country's overall medal tally. Last week, Queen Elizabeth began the countdown to the Games by handing a baton containing a goodwill message to the Commonwealth to Sir Roger Bannister, the first man to run a mile in under four minutes. The baton will make a 95,000-km journey through 23 Commonwealth countries before coming back to Britain in June, where it will visit 500 towns over a 50-day period...
...learned, for instance, that police officers often prowl Massachusetts highways in unmarked Ford Expeditions; that batting your eyes and acting apologetic will succeed only if you happen to be female (my beard didn’t help, obviously); and that this fair state charges $50 for the first ten miles over the speed limit, $10 for every mile thereafter, and then tacks on a $25 surcharge for the “head injury trust fund.” Thus, my ticket (handed out in a 65 m.p.h. zone) came to a remarkable...
...proliferation experts have suspected that several portable nuclear devices might be missing from the Russian stockpile. That made the DRAGONFIRE report alarming. So did this: detonated in lower Manhattan, a 10-kiloton bomb would kill some 100,000 civilians and irradiate 700,000 more, flattening everything in a half-mile diameter. And so counterterrorist investigators went on their highest state of alert...