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...secluded suburb. Then they pulled guns on the driver and forced him out. "Do not look back," one of the strangers said, before speeding off. In any other part of the world, the crime might be deemed the work of low-level thugs, but in Iraq even minor incidents can take on sinister dimensions. After investigating the taxi driver's story, agents from the General Security Service in Sulaimaniyah reached a chilling conclusion: the three men may have been foreign militants who slipped into Iraq to stage a terrorist attack against U.S. forces and their allies. The next car bomb...
...they had ever been on the war. They agreed that President Bush has been, as Dick Gephardt said, a "miserable failure" in the postwar period. All the major candidates favored a deal with the U.N. to bring more foreign troops into the peacekeeping operations; none counseled retreat. But a minor candidate, Congressman Dennis Kucinich, threw down a wildly provocative challenge: "We should bring the troops home now." This, I fear, is a position with a future. Many polls are showing significant public ambivalence about America's commitment to rebuild Iraq--and a clear-cut desire to spend less, not more...
...housing some 1,300 SARS patients will be completed by November. China's Guangdong province, ground zero for the virus, is spending more than $180 million to rebuild the provincial Center for Disease Control and add isolation rooms to hospitals. Properly prepared health facilities are key in keeping a minor outbreak from becoming a big one?SARS spread most rapidly among medical workers. "Without the trauma in hospitals there would have been no major outbreak last time," says Dr. Hitoshi Oshitani, the WHO regional adviser for communicable disease...
...store’s minor relocation from its old site has not prevented customers from associating it with the 1998 hit movie. In it, Matt Damon’s character proudly confronts a Harvard snob through the Dunkin’ Donuts window, asking “How do you like them apples...
...through minor injuries and new schemes, Crook has done everything in his power to prepare the men up front to carry their share of the load...