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Though it may never feel right to describe the place as clean, the cleanup of the World Trade Center site is done. What was "the Pile," a jagged mountain of knotted steel and concrete, is now a hole, a neatly squared-off, rectangular cavity of 16 gray-brown acres. On May 30, in a ceremony to be attended by thousands of recovery workers, uniformed officers and family members of the victims, an honor guard will carry a flag-draped stretcher out of the pit. With that, the search for bodily remains will effectively end. The fire fighters and construction workers...
...were met. Of course, it charged for this, although not as much as some tour companies. Ward used only his own bicycle and maps, ate at diners and restaurants and camped at state parks. He saw spectacular scenery along the way. If he had a flat or met a mountain he didn't like, he was on his own. But his vacation cost him less than he would have spent at home in New York in a week. The important thing is that each of us had a fabulous time...
...unavailable for interviews. Associates, including Inoue, claim Ogami still hides a personal net worth of at least $5 million, but the company's known assets?including real estate and Ogami's fleet of cars?have been seized. All that's left at G.O. Group's Tokyo headquarters is a mountain of discarded telephones stacked by the glass doors...
WILD KINGDOM The Jebel Akhdar, or Green Mountains, exert a mythical appeal both over locals and tourists. Every Omani will tell you how beautiful the mountains are, though few have actually made the day trip. Locals warn that it's risky to try to get to the fabled mountain villages, where terraced gardens bloom. They mention an unyielding police check-post, treacherous roads and hint at other, mysterious dangers. But my companions and I were not discouraged, not least because Arabs have a charming knack for hyperbole...
...Most other Kashmiris have no such luck. Their home is the disputed prize in what may be the most dangerous conflict on earth. In the early months of 1999, Pakistani soldiers took control of a mountain ridge on the Indian side of the Line of Control. In the spring, when they were discovered, that sparked the Kargil War, named for the region where it was fought. Both sides had tested nukes a few months earlier; last week in Washington, Bruce Riedel, senior director at the National Security Council, revealed that the Pakistani army, without informing its own government, had mobilized...